[PRCo] Re: Route 53 and Route 75

[mtoytrain at bellsouth.net]

  Matt

  Unable to pull up pictures as you have them listed?   What am I doing wrong?

  Jerry Matsick
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> From: Matt Barry <mrb190+ at pitt.edu>
> Date: 2005/07/11 Mon AM 10:30:03 EDT
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Route 53 and Route 75
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> Here a couple other Joe Testagrose photos that are currently on 
> alt.binaries.rail.
> The first is a great sgot of route 75 Wilkinsburg gliding along Penn Avenue.
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> The second is a shot of route 53 coming up Warrington Ave on July 1, 
> 1968.   I guess this was shortly after the tracks on South 18th street 
> into the South Side were abandoned and what was route 47 Carrick via 
> Tunnel became known as 53 Carrick.    There is a cardboard sign in the 
> window indicating that the car goes through the Tunnel and up 
> Warrington.    I wonder why 53 Carrick as it was wasn't just retired as 
> a route when teh south 18th street tracks were abandoned, in favor of 
> instituting the rush hour 47 as a regular route?
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