[PRCo] Re: PRC 100

[John Swindler]

>Matt Barry mentioned:
>
>There is rail left on Rt. 55 where tracks left paving in Braddock,
>heading onto prw which lead into East Pgh.
>And there is rail in red brick paving in Millvale which was part of the
>East Ohio Street at one time, but now is a parking lot in front of a few
>small businesses at the intersection of Grant Street and East Ohio.
>
>And there is a rail popping up on 47th Street at Butler Street in
>Lawrenceville.  Presumably this was rail used to run cars down to
>Plummer Street car house, or was part of a track that turned into the
>loop at 47th and Butler where a funeral home now is.
>
>And there is rail left turning into the old loop on 8th Avenue in
>Homestead formerly used to turn back Rt 65 Munhall and Rt 60 East
>Liberty-Homestead cars.
>
>And there is rail in Belgian Block paving running in front of the Old
>Post Office Museum (I think it is now called the Children's Museum)on an
>old stretch of East Ohio that is now part of the failed Allegheny Center
>Mall.
>
>There is also single track rail running on what I think is Madison
>Street on the North Side running up from Chesnut Street.  Not sure what
>route used that!
>


Routes 10, 11, 12 (normally only a shuttle)



>Rail is exposed now and again on Main Street in Munhall.
>
>And rail was exposed this past Saturday on Butler Street near
>Morningside.  The asphalt was scraped all the way from the 62nd Street
>Bridge to Baker Street.  I had forgotten the 96 East Liberty rail was
>first in belgian block for a bit, then on red brick the rest of the way
>to Baker Street.   The exposure showed how well the red brick held up.
>  The tracks were a bit rusty, though.
>
>For a number of years in the 1990's, the rail on Emerson Street  which
>was part of the 94 Aspinwall loop was totally exposed as was the yellow
>brick paving.  I assumed it was some community project that brought the
>rail and yellow brick back to add some historic charm to the community.
>  A few years ago, the brick and rail were unceremoniously paved over
>again with deep black  asphalt.
>
>Matt
>
>
>John Swindler wrote:
>

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