[PRCo] Re: Second__Street

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!

> rogertrolley.1 at juno.com wrote:

> I noticed,too late,someone mentioned 2nd st. was concrete.
> I remember riding a PCC down this street at night coming
> from someplace,and the car literally flew down this steet
> as there was little traffic and no traffic lights.
> It was an entrance street to down town but cannot remember
> what route it was (dating to 1959.) 
> Maybe #56 from Homestead ?cheers rogertrolley

	Yes  --
		55--Homestead--Braddock--E.Pgh.
		56--McKeesport
		57--Glenwood
		58--Greenfield

	all used Second Avenue.

	Second meandered and had some doglegs in it  --  photo on
pg.151 of Lind's book on St.Louis Car shows one in the
distance  --  good shot of mill as well.    When and where
tracks were in Belgian block, these curves seemed quite gentle
and could be taken at speed.    When street was rebuilt near
Parkway interchange - inner Second just outbound of 10th St
Bridge - seems tracks were slightly realigned and only enough
curve section was used at doglegs to prevent an acute
Angle!(:>)    Was on a fantrip with 1646 inbound on this 
*Concrete__Section*  and motorman - who had worked Washington
// Charleroi service - took it at some speed and all the dust
was wiped off the back seat as they whipped me thru that
curve!    16-series-Interurbans rode quite hard on those B3s!

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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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