[PRCo] LightRail/Pittsburgh website & 56 McKeesport

[Matt Barry]

This website offers some great views of the system as it is now...
http://www.oldtrails.com/LightRail/Pittsburgh/raillpitt.htm

...and on a cached page of the site (I guess it is no longer accessible) 
the webmaster offers the following views of then and now:

I passed through Pittsburgh a number of times as a youth in the 1960s.  
I was usually riding in the family car, and could only admire wistfully 
the good number of trolley routes then still operating with those 
wonderful PCC trolleys.  Tracks twisted up and down hills and extended 
out from street-running routes downtown in several main directions. 

One exceptional time, traveling by Greyhound and needing to change buses 
in Pittsburgh with a friend equally appreciative of urban rail transit, 
we had some free time to spend.  We chose to ride the 56 McKeesport line 
its full distance outbound.  The scenery and the ride were wonderful, 
and we were both enthralled by that feeling of being in a much earlier 
era.  What glorious memories remain!  Memories, but alas, no photos.    

This image is taken from the front end of a train heading inbound from 
Library.  The forest-lined right of way makes for a very pleasant 
passage.  It's not 56 McKeesport, but riding out on the further portions 
of the Library line in its own way still brings with it a certain 
feeling of joy for the trolley routes of old.