[PRCo] Re: Liberty Tubes

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!

> Fred Schneider wrote:

> .......The concrete ramp from Dormont Junction down
> onto West Liberty Avenue (the one the buses still use)
> was opened in the late 1930s.......

	August--1939 according to the photo caption for the
PTM__May--1997__Calendar photo  *pinup!*    Photo shows a
single-end low-floor approaching the  *Tubes*  with a PCC
already around the curve inbound//northbound onto what is now
Saw Mill.    Artiemobiles are heading inbound thru the
outbound  *Tube.*    Photo attributed to Lou_J.Redman.

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Waiting for a bus is about as thrilling as fishing,
	with the similar tantalisation that something,
		sometime, somehow, will turn up. 
			George Courtauld

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James B. Holland

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