[PRCo] Re: WEST END LINES

[Bob Rathke]

I was just looking through some slides I took of Three Rivers Stasium under
construction in 1969-70, and forgot that the Manchester bridge was still in
place in 1970 - in some shots, the north end of the bridge appeared to be
right up to the south wall of the stadium.  I believe that the trolley tracks
were still on the bridge at that time, but I'll have to look for close-ups to
confirm this.

Bob 6/1/01

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Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> On Thu, 31 May 2001, Fred W. Schneider III wrote:
>
> >
> > As has been pointed out before in this site, PRC twice spent a lot of
> > money studying the west end for conversion to trolley coach simply
> > because those routes had not been profitable for years. The rails and
> > wire on Carson Street were intact until the power had to be turned off
> > for construction of the new Fort Pitt bridge.  PRC could have used that
> > route.  I'm sure they could have used the new bridge had they wanted to
> > spend the money.  And perhaps they could have purchased and continued to
> > use the Point Bridge.
>
> And you don't think Mayor Lawrence wouldn't have had a fit about not
> getting that bridge out of the park there?
>
> I suppose the other bridge did stick around another 10 years in actual
> service...
>
> -D