[PRCo] Re: PRC 100

[Fred Schneider]

Sad that Western Pennsylvania doesn't have the money to keep streets
properly paved so that these obstructions don't keep popping up!   fws
Matt Barry wrote:

> 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!
>
> 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
>
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