[PRCo] Re: Routes that Could Have Been Retained

[Matt Barry]

It is a shame that Perrysville Avenue and East Liberty have tarnished 
images.    Strange that there have been several drug busts in Mt. 
Washington over the last couple years.
Fred Schneider wrote:

>Now this is the one that makes sense except that you would have to  
>prohibit parking and the restauranteurs would go ape.    I rode this  
>line in its last year on a Saturday night and the car appeared to be  
>on time.   I ask the motorman why?   Answer, he wasn't on time.   He  
>was exactly one trip late.   By the time we got up to La Mont's  
>restaurant, I took my picture of the auto parked on the tracks, and  
>then walked to the incline and went back down.   The motorman went  
>into the restaurants until he found who owned the car.
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>On Oct 7, 2005, at 3:19 PM, <mtoytrain at bellsouth.net> wrote:
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>>Hey Gang
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>>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!
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>>Jerry Matsick
>>In Trackless Jacksonville
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>>>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
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>>>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.
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>>>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.
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>>>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.
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>>>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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