[PRCo] Re: West Liberty Avenue Ramp

Fred Schneider fwschneider at comcast.net
Tue May 30 15:05:32 EDT 2006


Interesting picture of a Keating PCC (one of the Fineview cars if  
brain housing group is working correctly) after Keating closed and  
the car was reassigned briefly to Tunnel.

On May 30, 2006, at 1:55 PM, Matt Barry wrote:

> Below is a shot, very new to me, of a 39 Brookline car about to climb
> the private-right-of-way ramp leading up to the junction with the
> Dormont cars and to cross Saw Mill Run to get to the Transit Tunnel.
>
> I can still recall how angry my aunt, a Brookline Blvd. resident, was
> when the conversion was made to bus.  Thus, the buses could not use  
> the
> prw ramp or the then-unpaved transit tunnel.  She hated sitting on  
> a bus
> in the Liberty Tunnels, in morning and evening rush hour traffic.    
> She
> worked in Downtown.    Shortly after, she moved to Voekle Street in
> Dormont, a block away from the 42/38 carline.
>
> http://www.spdconline.org/history/Trolleys/images/Trolley16.JPG
>
> Matt
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