[PRCo] Re: Snow

[mtoytrain at bellsouth.net]

I remember the Snow Fall of 1950 very clearly, in my old home town of Donora the only thing that
ran was the Snow plow and those wonderful Jones Low Floor street cars, 17 blocks to the city and
at least you could get from one end of the town to the other, or go to Monongahela, and yes to the only two hospitals available to Donoras one in New Eagle and one in North Charleroir.  Yes I remember riding the street car during the blizzard.

Jerry Matsick
Jacksonville - trackless and trolleyless
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> From: "Dietrich, Robert J." <Robert.Dietrich at unisys.com>
> Date: 2006/01/06 Fri PM 03:13:51 EST
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Snow
> 
> Three feet!
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of Matt
> Barry
> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 3:11 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Snow
> 
> The infamous snowfall  of 1950 would be a good gauge of that.    I 
> recall reading an old clipping of the Pittsburgh Press (which was framed
> 
> in the Bellevue Eat 'n Park some years back) that the 88 Frankstown and 
> one or two other routes were operating within the following day.   
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> raymond at nauticom.net wrote:
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> >Hello. I was looking at the PTM calendar January 2006 photo and
> wondering
> >if any one on this list knows how much snow fall it would take to close
> a
> >route like 21 Fineview or say 40 Mt. Washington?  Did the sweepers
> clear
> >snow on these routes? I cant recall seeing any pictures of sweepers on
> >these routes.
> >
> >Thanks
> >Ray
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