[PRCo] Re: Single Track Munhall

[bob at dietrichsfam.com]

The stub-end track down State Street in Media PA is all single track.  Then
I don't know if Media is "urban" or if you could consider Kawasakis
streetcars.

Bob  

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[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of John
Swindler
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 8:19 AM
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Subject: [PRCo] Re: Single Track Munhall

 
 
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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