[PRCo] Re: Rt. 49 and Brownsville Ave. single track

[Jim Holland]

> Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> Brownsville Avenue is now known as New Arlington Avenue.

	Can't find a Brownsville  *AVE*  on my map, nor a New Arlington.  My
map is ca.-20-years old.

	And Brownsville Rd doesn't cross Warrington; might have in 1925!

	Maybe that is the reason that the inbound 48-line jogs off Arlington on
that 2-car-length prw-alley to Mt.-Oliver and Warrington  --  and also
why the 49-line was predominantly single track to Carson Street!

	Just make sure that any modules that connect are non--PRCo and you
should be OK!!<GG>

>> Dietrich, Robert J. wrote:::::::

>> OK, let me get this straight.  PRCo goes against Annie X after the War and
>> gets broken into little pieces.  Brownsville Ave. is now only one track but
>> Little Annie takes everyone to court and gets the below-mentioned agreement
>> nullified and voided.  So now I can't bring any cars out of the tunnel and
>> route them up through the hollow?  Or will I be able to send that one
>> Special Car each day?  I suppose this would work when there aren't enough
>> modules to connect to.

>> I'm just a little confused though.  What is Brownsville Avenue?  Isn't
>> Arlington Ave. The one track mountain trail that goes from Carson St. to
>> Warrington Ave?

>>> From:   John Swindler [mailto:j_swindler at hotmail.com]

>>> Within the past couple weeks there were several messages concerning the
>>> single track on Brownsville Ave. on the north side of Mt. Washington.

>>> Just for the record, at least under Pittsburgh Railways, Brownsville Ave.
>>> was originally double track, not single track.

>>> Was curious about a reference to a 1923 agreement to run and operate
>>> streetcars through Mt. Washington Tunnel.  After all, why would there be a
>>> need for an agreement in 1923, twenty -some- years after the opening of Mt.
>>> Washington tunnel???

>>> Turns out that PUC docket A-7933 is a request for the PUC to bless an
>>> agreement dated 25 Sept. 1922 between the Mt. Washington Tunnel Co., Mt.
>>> Washington Street Railway Co. and Pittsburgh Railways Co. on the one part;
>>> and the Brownsville Ave. St. Ry., West Liberty Street Railway and Pittsburgh
>>> and Birmingham Street Railway on the second part.

>>> The agreement provides for the 'temporary' abandonment for 49 years of one
>>> of the tracks on Brownsville Ave. between Warrington Ave. and Carson St. due
>>> to City of Pittsburgh repaving.

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James B. Holland
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