[PRCo] Re: Two maybe OT Topics

[Harold Geissenheimer]

Greetings

You are right.

In many cases the streets with tracks were the only
thru streets.  So there was little choice.

When I first moved to Pgh in 1950 before the parkways, I used to give
driving directioins by telling people to follow the tracks, like thru 
Swissvale,
Braddock, Rankin, East Pgh. Turt;e Creek

The hilly nature of Pghmade the trolley streets the only alternative

Harold Geissenheimer


Carl Zager wrote:

>1. Just read the Classic Trains article on the PLE Berkshires and how they
>were forecd to go ahead and purchase more steam, even though the mgmt
>realized the problems this would create for Pittsburgh division, and was
>struck by the similarity between management decisions versus the opinions
>of labor or supervisors when dealing with the rails to buses conversions.
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>2. In line with the continuing discussions of car houses and their 
>contents and job rules, I have always wondered whether Pittsburgh 
>consciously located Police and fire stations in the vicinity of streetcar 
>tracks (or vice versa). On while that topic is open (if it is), have the 
>official names of police divisions in Pittsburgh changed over the years?
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>Carl
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