[PRCo] Re: 49--Beltzhoover -- Over The Hill Route [was: 7--CHARLES]

[Jim Holland]

> Greg King wrote:

> As for street track, I actually meant on the surviving LRT lines (I was
> aware of the other topics on the abondoned lines). You did'nt say whether
> that stretch under the bridge is still there and if it's now double or still
> single,

	Doesn't matter if it is there or not  --  tisn't used today!  The
present-day 49-line (52-Allentown??) enters Arlington from the Panhandle
bridge at a point near where the Liberty Bridge passes overhead and
heads up the hill all on double track.  It is double track down
Warrington to SHJ.

	The old 49-line was single track outbound just a short distance after
leaving Carson Street and returned to double track several hundred feet
before reaching Warrington.  Warrington was and is double track.

	The old 42-line thru Beechview is the prime (and only) lrv line today
and that portion is double-track street running today as well.

	Greg - when you say 'surving lrt lines' it sounds as though there were
many more lrt lines and that they were abandoned!!(:->)

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