[PRCo] Re: Which route?

Matt Barry mrb190+ at pitt.edu
Fri Mar 1 12:34:49 EST 2002


I wish that all three of your wishes are granted, and that I can be a 
passenger!  Very vivid detail; made me feel like I was on board.

Tom, since you are familiar with route 56, do you recall if there were 
any short trestles taht the car crossed alongside Mifflin Road, on the 
way to the intersection with route 65 Munhall?   I ask because I can't 
fathom how the cars on private-right-of-way fit alongside a paved 
Mifflin Road.  Some curves seem way too narrow to accomodate this, and I 
figured that perhaps trestles were in place to take the rails over the 
creek that exists between the hillside and Mifflin Road.

Thanks,
Matt

tompark at interchange.ubc.ca wrote:

>Can I have three wishes -- even if they were all achieved in the past?
>
>Slipping and sliding on 21 Fineview on a 1400 in the snow. -10 outside but
>warm, toasty and safe inside, the city lights twinkling behind.
>
>Inbound on a 56 on a hot summer evening with Ray Foley temporarily in the
>motorman's seat, flooring it down to the "hollow", trucks hunting
>alarmingly as we start to hurl up the other side with the rush of a warm
>breeze through the window smelling of crushed vegetation, gear oil, brake
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