[PRCo] Re: Routes that Could Have Been Retained

[Matt Barry]

Very true!  Never got to ride that route, but wished I had, delays over 
parked cars and all!
mtoytrain at bellsouth.net wrote:

>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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