[PRCo] Re: was McKees Rocks, OT now!!!

[Boris Cefer]

A PTM part time archivist!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark McGuire" <macmarka at netzero.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 8:23 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: McKees Rocks


> No, he is PTM Archivist. I'm sure Ed has done his fair share of reading
and then some.
>   We all hear about and have seen some books on PRCo. I have always
> wished someone would write a book specializing in the PRCo interurbans. I
think Ed would be the prime choice. If I could only
> see inside of his head, maybe I could do it quite a few years down the
road. Just wish I lived up there still for him to "rub off on me"
> more. I have learned a great deal from Ed and it's much appreciated.
>
> -- "Boris Cefer" <westinghouse at iol.cz> wrote:
> 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
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