[PRCo] Re: 44-KNOXVILLE

[Bob Rathke]

How about the P&LE Transfer line.

Bob 12/27/03

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold Geissenheimer" <transitmgr2 at earthlink.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 10:00 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: 44-KNOXVILLE


> Greetings
>
> 44 & Pa station was a station streetcar route to serve the RR.
>
> A question to all.  Were there other station streetcar routes?
>  From the NS?
>
> Harold Geissenheimer
>RR
> Boris Cefer wrote:
>
> >Hello!
> >PRCo route 44 had been using Smithfield St, Liberty Ave, 12th St, Penn
Ave, 11th St and again Liberty Ave, Wood St and Ft Pitt Blvd (earlier days
Water St) for many years to make its loop thru downtown, using destination
44-KNOXVILLE & PA. STA.
> >Some time before abandonment in 1971, the second part of destination - &
PA. STA. - vanished and the loop was changed to Smithfield, Liberty, Wood
and Fort Pitt after the Pennsylvania Railroad Station was closed. What year
it was?
> >And another question migh be when was finished/opened the bridge
structure carrying the Fort Pitt Blvd.
> >
> >Happy New Year!
> >
> >Boris
> >
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> >
> >
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