[PRCo] Re: rails still in Penn Av

[Edward H. Lybarger]

The ICC had nothing to do with PAT or PRCo.

PAT removed rail only if it was politically expeditious (or required by a
lawsuit), not because PUC had any authority to make them do it.  Perhaps HHG
could clarify what really went on.  I may indeed have oversimplified it.

See you all (figuratively) June 17!

Ed

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Subject: [PRCo] Re: rails still in Penn Av



Without reading all the ICC abandonment dockets, I suspect the difference is
that the private company had to remove rails to satisfy all the local
communities but those lines abandoned by PAT were different because then it
was one arm of government versus another.  I would suspect PAT left a lot of
rail in situ while PRC probably was forced to remove most of it.

I'm waiting for a mile-by-mile rebuttal.

Matt Barry wrote:

> I think the rail is in up to East Liberty where the former mall begins,
> then after that inbound to town -- I KNOW it is still under the asphalt.
>     I lived in Lawrenceville most of my life and recall that Penn was
> only paved over, no rail removal at all.
>
> ALSO -- in Munhall, the single track with sidings pop up now and again
> at various places along Main Street from Homestead hospital on West
> Street all the way up Main to the Mifflin Road Interboro Ave junction.
>  Right now, there is visible track near the curb at "Cemetery siding" on
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