[PRCo] Re: Station square

[Harold G.]

Greetings   This was a private r/w.   Not for autos.  Harold

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Robb <bill937ca at yahoo.ca>
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Date: Saturday, January 01, 2005 2:26 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Station square


>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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