[PRCo] Re: Wilmerding Sunday Pass Riders

[Derrick J Brashear]

Hm. I found this message in my "saved drafts" folder. Wonder why I never 
sent it?

On Mon, 10 May 2004, Matt Barry wrote:

> Naturally, we started on either the streetcar, the 87 Ardmore, or on the 
> McKeesport bus. You are all familiar with the "orangish," flat front 
> bus, but, do you remember when the bus was silver with green trim? It 
> had a hood about 4-5 feet long. The nice thing was that the bus went up 
> the ice plant hill, instead of the 5th Avenue route. That came later. 
> We just had to go to the bottom of our street, Brown Street, to get the 
> bus, and get started on our day long adventure.

The street is still "Ice Plant Hill"; The ice plant is gone. The 
streetcars of course used to use 5th Avenue in the PRCo days, and the 
earlier line which was West Penn related used a right of way closer to the 
center of the hill.