[PRCo] Re: Rails to Pittsburgh

[Bob Rathke]

"Rails to Pittsburgh" is not a trolley book, but it has many railroad
photos of locales that we often talk about on this list.  I refer to it
regularly.  It has only a few trolley photos.  $70 seems a bit high for
this book.

Bob 6/12/01

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Donald Galt wrote:

> On 11 Jun 01, at 21:08, Jim Holland wrote:
>
> >
> > > W.A. Feibelman's 1979 book, "Rails to Pittsburgh" is
> > > mostly about the PRR, but it contains many photos of city
> > > scenes in the 1940's and 1950's that help document the
> > > things we've been talking about on this list: downtown
> > > trolleys, Duquesne Light Co.power plant, intersection of
> > > Grant and Liberty, Railway Express Building, Diamond
> > > Street and Diamond Market, Carson Street....
> >
> >  Would appreciate hearing more about this book and details
> >  that would be
> > specifically interesting to the trolleycar fan before I
> > shell out $70.00 for it!
> >
>
> I'd save my money. Lots of cool mainline pictures of the Pittsburgh
> area and the lines leading to it from the east. But streetcars? A
> couple of generic views of PCCs. The only one that might interest
> you mildly is a distant one taken from the top of the Duquesne
> incline showing a PCC turning from the Point Bridge with a 32
> waiting on Carson St. Probably available elsewhere.
>
> Don