[PRCo] Re: Station square

[Bill Robb]

Any idea why PRC paved the 42 Dormont PRW to just over
the top of the ties, but not flush with the top of the
rail?  Concrete is an expensive method of paving.

Bill Robb


--- "Harold G." <transitmgr2 at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Happy New Year to Derrick and all
> 
> I only know about putting asphalt on top of
> abandoned
> tracks.  Didthey ever put concrete over it?  Penn
> Ave
> downtown and the others I mentioned had removed the
> abandoned rails.
> 
> PRC used concrete on PRW on 42 Dormont with the
> rail sticking up a little.  I liked that.
> 
> Harold Geissenheimer
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derrick J Brashear <shadow at dementia.org>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Date: Friday, December 31, 2004 10:37 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Station square
> 
> 
> >On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Harold G. wrote:
> >
> >> Greetings to all/
> >>
> >> Two points.   City of Pgh DPW in the 1960's
> >> was sold on concrete paved streets.  See Penn
> >> ave downtown, 7trh street, streets around A Ctr
> and
> >> E Lib mall, etc.  I liked them.  made every thing
> >> look clean.  Thats why 2dAve was in coincrete.
> >
> >Billboards along the PA Turnpike be damned, if you
> want it to last, you
> >pour concrete, on a proper subbase. (well, if you
> want it to *really*
> >last, you use properly fired bricks, and lay them
> properly, but Grant St
> >shows firing is hard, and laying bricks is a lost
> art; Besides, things
> >aren't as smooth, and people don't like that)
> >
> >The asphalt over concrete that's been happening a
> lot lately is probably
> >an ok compromise; Do sleazy deep-patching, then
> just roll asphalt over it.
> >Asphalt's rutting, binder is gone? Scrape it off
> the concrete, recycle it,
> >and put it down again.
> >
> >Of course, the usual paving "machine" (typically
> just a movable jig on a
> >track put down to make it easy to continuously
> pour) would leave cleaning
> >to be done if you actually ran it over girder rail;
> I'm actually somewhat
> >curious how they lay concrete over rail. In the old
> days the answer was
> >almost certainly "by hand".
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 


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