[PRCo] [Fwd: Liberty Tubes]

[Fred Schneider]

Everybody else seems to have answer this already, and they are correct.

The original route (1904 or 1905) to Brookline and Mount Lebanon
branched off the Dormont line about half way down through Tunnel yard,
and curved left out of the yard and onto Warrington Avenue, and then
followed it to the bottom of the hill, then left, and then right onto
West Liberty Avenue.  This may be partly incorrect, because, if memory
serves, the line on Warrington probably actually predated the Dormont
line.  The concrete ramp from Dormont Junction down onto West Liberty
Avenue (the one the buses still use) was opened in the late 1930s, at
least a decade after the Liberty Tubes opened.   We have pictures of PCC
cars on the old route.

After the new ramp was opened, the two stub tracks in Tunnel Yard up to
the property fence were used for car storage ... I think they were
probably still there until the yard closed, or at least until well into
the 1960s.   This is the same scheme that was followed after route 40
closed and the two tracks were retained to store cars.

This is far from the best photo I've ever seen ... there is a much nicer
one that EHL found.   And I think there was a very good one in a
Pittsburgh Press Roto magazine one Sunday.



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