[PRCo] Re: PRCo - "through?" lines

[Edward H. Lybarger]

22/85 was a through route for a while.

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Subject: [PRCo] Re: PRCo - "through?" lines





>mrb190 Matt commented:
>
>
>Now that I see PAT, in recent years, has created routes which go all the
>way from Bellevue to Highland Park, cutting through downtown Pittsburgh, it
>made me recall reading that the railways once had such routes....
>
>Wasn't there a route which went from the Butler Street 62nd street loop,
>through town, and over to the South Side Carson Street loop (where route 50
>once terminated)?
>
>Does anyone know of any others?
>


Wasn't there a time when 22 and 85 were through routed??

In (very) early years, there was an intersting loop operation:  Out Second
Ave. through Glenwood to McKeesport (rt 56), then to Wilmerding, then to
East Pittsburgh and inbound 55 to Pittsburgh.  Don't know if it followed 55
as we remember through Homestead or stayed on north side of Monongahela
River. to Glenwood.

Let's see PAT top that!

John





>Also, is that what a "through" route is -- a route which travels through
>downtown on to another destination?
>


Did "through" route refer to former Pittsburgh Motor Coach routes????  Such
as Shadyside, Mt. Lebanon???  I guess Harold G. might be the resident expert
with this one.




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