[PRCo] Aspinwall__To__Trafford!!!!!!!

[James B. Holland]

James B. Holland wrote:
> prcopcc at p-r-co.com wrote:
>
>> .I have a photo somewhere of a WP *-Valley--Line-* Cincy curved sider 
>> with an PRCo low floor in Aspinwall.
>
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> Here's a copy.
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> http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/0834%20Aspinwall%20193608xx.jpg


Included below is an article  (which I may have posted before)  that 
links Aspinwall with Trafford via a move of the equipment from the 
Valley lines to Coke region over PRCo tracks  (*-Possible-*  route is 
94-IB to Butler St.;  Loop;  96 to E.Liberty;  Wilkensburg;  87-Ardmore 
to 62 to Trafford and WP  --  great railfan excursion!)

So I am including a number of photos near Trafford with this post:

01.>--   WP 290 at the terminal in Trafford; operator needs to change 
ends!       PRCo low floor inbound to E.Pgh in the background.

02.>--   5432 on fan trip along the 62 line in 1956.

03.>--   1662 on the 62 loop where 290 was in the first picture.       
Also have a photo of 1662 on the 39 line in 1960 so car shuffles in 
1950s during car barn closings saw Many Changes!

04.>--   M11, former 100, same place as 1662 and 290.       Date on the 
photo says 1964  --  Possible, but I never knew that car to be out after 
last PRMA charter on 10-August-1958  --  had to be before  ({[pat]}) 
takeover so date must be wrong as trees are Way Too Green for early Spring!!



By Robert B. Van Atta
FOR THE TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Sunday, October 3, 2004

When the trolley lines in the Allegheny Valley from Blawnox north to 
Tarentum and New Kensington closed down because of a lack of patronage 
and the forbidding expense necessary to provide for improvements in 
Route 28, action was fast.

Early Sunday morning, May 23, 1937, at 1:57 a.m., the last trolley car 
to run on the Allegheny Valley Street Railway arrived at the Ross Street 
car barn in Tarentum, operated by motorman James A. Robinson.

A few hours later, the trolleys were being moved to the West Penn 
Railways car barns in Connellsville by way of Aspinwall, Pittsburgh 
Railways to Trafford and on to Greensburg and Connellsville. The next 
day, track removal started as work was rushed on Route 28 improvements.

The Allegheny Valley line was a subsidiary of West Penn Railways, having 
been acquired by that firm about 1910 from the Mellon utility and 
railways interests in Pittsburgh.




Jim__Holland


I__Like__Ike.......And__PCCs!!

down with pantographs ---- UP___WITH___TROLLEYPOLES!!!!!!!


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