[PRCo] Lawrenceville Water Main Breaks 1950s

[Matt Barry]

Just some interesting photos of the early 1950s and how streetcars got 
around water main breaks in Lawrenceville at that time.
The first shows a 1950 break at Butler and 40th St.    The workmen are 
able to work between the tracks.

The second shows another break, this time in 1951, on Butler Street at 
Plummer, where the tracks are torn up, seemingly a bigger, more 
intensive job.  On the left of the photo, the streetcars apparently used 
the Plummer Street trackage to get back up to Butler:  Butler, Plummer 
and left up 47th Street and turn right, back on to Butler, outbound. The 
reverse, inbound.    Lucky to have Plummer Street tracks at that time, 
which led to the Plummer St. car house.

The last photo shows a zoomed-in view of the above-photo with a picture 
of a temporary Pgh Railways crossover.

Speaking of the Plummer Street Car House, weren't the tracks formerly 
located there eventually used at the (then-called) Arden Trolley Museum?

Matt


 


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