[PRCo] Re: McKees Rocks

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Actually I'm sitting!  And some days you get lucky...all that information came straight from the route card, a copy of which happens to be in my file cabinet in the basement.

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[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of Boris
Cefer
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 11:00 AM
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Subject: [PRCo] Re: McKees Rocks


You are a walking library!

:-)

B

----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams at adelphia.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 4:51 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: McKees Rocks


> Route 24 was isolated from the rest of the system on January 26, 1920 with
the closing of O'Donovan's Bridge due to structural deficiencies.  At the
time, the line was operated with a single-truck car, number 207, which was
demolished 7-2-20 in a collision with a P&LE locomotive.  Car 211 replaced
it, but burned on 10-15-21 outside "Schoen's Gate" (entrance to Pressed
Steel Car Co.).  The following Saturday, the company dragged car 572 across
the railroad tracks to replace it.  The route is listed as being operated
with a single-truck car into 1927, when the data in that column ceases.  At
some point, car 4344 was brought over and worked up to the end of service.
It was maintained on the street at one end of the line.
>
> Ed