[PRCo] Streetcar Loops

[Gray, George]

The following extract from the Brookline community website implies that
Brookline loop was completed in 1915.  No additional land purchase would
have been necessary to build the loop.
 

In 1905 the Pittsburgh Railway System laid the first single track
trolley line through Brookline. Service went from the Brookline Junction
(West Liberty Avenue) down the length of Brookline Boulevard, extending
down through the wooded valley to Fairhaven, near the old Overbrook
School at Saw Mill Run. This connected to the old Charleroi rail line
that ran along Saw Mill Run. (The tunnel near Overbrook School at the
far eastern edge of Brookline was built for that first trolley line, and
the brackets for the power lines are still there, over 100 years later!)

This inaugural track was terminated at Edgebrook Avenue less than a year
later. In 1909 work began on a double-track line that ran from the
junction at West Liberty Avenue past Edgebrook and Breining Street. It
terminated at a trolley loop near Witt Street on the eastern end of
Brookline Boulevard. Work on the new line was completed in 1915, when
additional track was laid from the Brookline junction up the remaining
stretch of West Liberty Avenue to the city limit at Dormont Borough.

 

George Gray

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