[PRCo] Re: PRCo Quiz

[John Swindler]

Euclid and St. Clair trackage existed because it formed one-way pair for 
company competing with another traction company operating Highland 
Ave./Negley Ave. service.   Interesting writeups on different Pittsburgh 
traction companies appeared in Street Railway Journal circa 1900.


>From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <twg at pulsenet.com>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: PRCo    Quiz
>Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 14:32:19 -0400
>
>
>A quick peek at the map seem to indicate that routes 60, 75, 82, 87, 88 and
>96 would have used it in modern time.  Routes 71 and 73 both crossed it.
>Prior to its abandonment in 1918, 84 would also have been there.  There may
>have been other routes in the early years, since we haven't cataloged the
>"don't go to town" routes that were so prolific but so short-lived in the
>face of economic reality.  We do know that there was track on both Euclid
>Avenue and St. Clair Street; whether either did anything but cross Penn
>Avenue is an issue for research.
>
>Ed
>
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>Subject: [PRCo] Re: PRCo Quiz
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>
>Did anyone ever figure this one out?
>
>Thanks,
>Matt
>
>Jim Holland wrote:
>
> > Greetings!
> >
> > PRCo    Quiz
> >
> > "IF    YOU    WERE    TO    HAVE    RIDDEN   inbound in East Liberty on
> > Penn Avenue between Negley and Shady, how many lines would have used
> > that trackage?"
> >
> > P.E.R.C.   *Trolley   Fare*   Vol VI #8,   December 1959.
> > =========================================
> >
> > James B. Holland
> >
> >         Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
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