[PRCo] Re: Passing trolleys

[Bob Rathke]

That North Avenue safety island was the layover for route 22, but after 
22-Crosstown was discontinued, 77/54 was rerouted there, probably because of 
the closing of streets around the Allegheny Center area.

I also took a photo of the front of 1436 at the layover that day - it's a 
77/54 car.

Bob 5/14/06

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Swindler" <j_swindler at hotmail.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2006 4:30 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Passing trolleys


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> Was going to comment that it was more likely a 22 Crosstown car on North 
> Ave
> rather then 77/54, which looped on Gen Robinson St., then looked at the
> date.  Was 77/54 rerouted to North Ave. by 1965??  Because didn't 22
> Crosstown go about two years earlier????
>
> John
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>>From: "Bob Rathke" <bobrathke at comcast.net>
>>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>>To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>>Subject: [PRCo] Passing trolleys
>>Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 10:19:09 -0500
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>>Attached is a scan of a slide I took on July 26, 1965.  The location is 
>>the
>>route 77/54 layover island on North Avenue between Federal St. and
>>Sandusky,
>>and near Allegheny General Hospital.  The view is looking east, and the
>>trolley is 1436.
>>The yellow sign on the safety island reads:
>>
>>Trolley Layover
>>PASS ON RIGHT
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>>
>>Bob 5/14/06
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>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Holland Electric Rwy. Op. H.E.R.O. -- Import SPTC 1.48 Models //
>>James B. Holland" <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com>
>>To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>>Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 10:13 PM
>>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Passing___TrolleyCars
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>> > Always  bean  on the books on the Left Coast in CA!!!!!!!
>> >
>> > What about the law where one cannot tie his horse to the rail in front
>> > of a saloon on Sunday???????
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>> > Fred Schneider wrote:
>> > .
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>> >> From Peter Folger's news items:   the state of Pennsylvania finally
>>woke
>> >> up to the fact that we still have streetcars and that they deleted a
>>law
>> >> five or ten years ago that made sense.   Now they restored the law.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>"Additionally, the bill provides that a vehicle may not pass a 
>> >>streetcar
>> >>on the left when the streetcar is moving in the same direction.
>>Nor
>> >>may a
>> >>vehicle pass a streetcar that has stopped to receive or discharge
>> >>passengers on the side on which the passengers enter and the exit the
>> >>streetcar until the doors are closed and any discharged passengers have
>> >>moved to the side of the highway......
>> >>
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>>http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/PAT1436-77-54Sign072665.JPG
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