[PRCo] FW: Re: 7--Charles

[tsquare at toad.net]

On 5/17/01 at 3:25 PM I wrote:

>IF MEMORY SERVES CORRECTLY, "7-CHARLES ST." WAS THE ONLY LINE OPERATED 
>ON 5TH STREET BETWEEN LIBERTY AND PENN.  I DO NOT RECALL WHETHER IT 
>TURNED INTO 5TH STREET FROM LIBERTY OR CONTINUED INTO 5TH STREET FROM 
>5TH AVE.  AT PENN IT TURNED WEST TO STANWYX, NORTH TO DUQUESNE WAY, 
>THEN EAST TO THE 6TH ST BRIDGE.  DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THIS?

>TOM

WELL, I WAS WRONG -- TWO LINES USED 5TH STREET IN DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH:
ONE WAS "7-CHARLES ST/PENNA STA", THE ROUTING OF WHICH WAS FROM WEST ON 
LIBERTY TO NORTH ON 5TH ST AND THE OTHER WAS "22-CROSSTOWN" THE ROUTING OF 
WHICH WAS NORTH FROM 5TH AVE, ACROSS LIBERTY AVE, TO NORTH ON 5TH ST.
 
SORRY

TOM
-----Original Message-----
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of Jim
Holland
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 2:50 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: 7--Charles



>> On 17 May 01, at 11:52, tsquare at toad.net wrote:

>> WHAT WAS THE ROUTING OF THE 7-CHARLES ST. LINE IN DOWNTOWN PGH?
>> AS I RECALL, IT DID NOT FOLLOW THE ROUTING OF ANY OTHER LINE.

> Donald Galt wrote:

> As of 1950, the 7, 13/14 and 15 used the Sixth Street bridge both
> ways, looping via Penn, Stanwyx and Fort Duquesne Blvd. The 22
> also ran both ways over Sixth Street.

	Was it That Early in the game that the 7-line was cut back?  It used to
run to the PRR station.

-- 
James B. Holland

        Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
    To e-mail privately, please click here: mailto:pghpcc at pacbell.net
N.M.R.A.  Life member #2190; http://www.mcs.net:80/~weyand/nmra/