[PRCo] Re: Routes that Could Have Been Retained

[mtoytrain at bellsouth.net]

Hey Gang

To me the best route that should have been kept was to ride a PRCo Streetcar on Mt Washington, if they could have just made a back and forth loop up there the "Tourist" dollars would have more than paid for the upkeep.    I have been from Coast to Coast in the USA and all over Europe and Mid Eastern Europe, not too many sights better than from up on Mt Washington.
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Well shoot i would give 100 bucks just to ride a street car North on East Street, or the Perrysville Line.
Pittsburgh goofeed big time when the elimiated our Trolleys.  Or to squeek around the Drake Loop!

Jerry Matsick
In Trackless Jacksonville

> From: Matt Barry <mrb190+ at pitt.edu>
> Date: 2005/10/07 Fri PM 02:21:12 EDT
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Routes that Could Have Been Retained
> 
> Looking at this photograph, 
> http://www.davesrailpix.com/pitts/htm/pitt245.htm  I recalled what a 
> pleasant ride it was heading out to the Highland Park Zoo from East 
> Liberty, after a transfer from an outbound 88 car. 
> 
> I realize that the Oakland portions of the line, Fifth and Forbes are 
> now mostly one-way from Downtown to Oakland, but a solution would have 
> been using 88 Frankstown trackage to East Liberty, then to Negley Ave, 
> and on to the Highland Park terminus.   Penn Avenue is still relatively 
> Penn Avenue, as it was before the conversions in 1967.  OK, for awhile 
> there was a huge building parked on top of Penn in East Liberty, but it 
> had an underpass for buses, then ultimately all transportation once the 
> idea of a pedestrian mall failed.  And Negley and the Highland Park area 
> still has the same two-way streets and one-way streets the trolleys used.
> 
> Why am I thinking about this at all?     Tourists.     While I was in 
> New Orleans this past May, I realized that a lot of the folks riding the 
> St. Charles (in particular) and the newer Canal Street lines, were tourists.
> 
> Another line I thought would have made a decent tourist one was 39 
> Brookline.   And, of course, the grand tourist line of all, the Fineview.
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