[PRCo] Re: Single Track Munhall

[John Swindler]

Isn't there single track street operation on Sharon Hill?  It is within the Philadelphia urbanized area.  
 
(But I could very well be having a senior moment with this possible recollection)
 
John> From: galtfd at att.net> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org> Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 23:48:09 -0700> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Single Track Munhall> > On 2 May 2008 at 16:51, Barry, Matthew R wrote:> > > This link: http://www.heritagetrolley.org/defSingleDoubleTrack.htm> > Includes an article about single-double track street railways, and includes a (1960's, I think) photo of single track with passing siding, on Main Street in Munhall, PA.> > > > Interesting picture. The observation that it is/was the last single-track urban > streetcar line, though, is not quite true. The Link line in Tacoma WA (2003) is > single-track, non-segregated in city streets, with passing loops. Not your > mother's streetcar, perhaps, and decades too late to compete with the Lincoln > Place line. But an urban tramline nonetheless.> > Don G> > 
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