[PRCo] Re: PAT and the "T" operation

Derrick J Brashear shadow at dementia.org
Thu Jan 4 14:15:04 EST 2007


On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 mtoytrain at bellsouth.net wrote:

> When I left Pittsburgh the mighty PCCs were operating "great" in 1965, my question is what was the first year of operation for the "T"?    How long was Overbrook shut down?    Another question:   With
> Ardmore Boulevard (private right of way) was there no consideration of running the LRVs to East End of the city, which is a very populated area?

You'd have to get the cars to Wilkinsburg to enter the RoW.

Even the West End RoW along Steubenville Pike didn't survive (the Point 
Bridge died, and I guess the trip from the Smithfield St Bridge was too 
long... Then we got the West Busway to essentially bring back a similar 
RoW, so....




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