[PRCo] Re: Route 5 passing siding

[Bob Rathke]

Unless the line was to be kept open as an alternate route, or if there was a 
restraining order on the abandonment,  PRC and PAT usually started to remove 
wire shortly after trolley operations ceased.
The attached image seems to show one of these exceptions: I took this photo 
of wire removal at the intersection of Chestnut and East Ohio Streets on the 
Northside on September 11, 1966.  The view is to the northwest, Chestnut St. 
in the foreground, and E. Ohio Street running left to right in the 
background (where the dump trucks are removing debris from demolition of the 
old Limberg building).

The Chestnut/E. Ohio line was used by 77/54. Tracks in the right foreground 
(under the blue '59 Ford) continue north on Chestnut St. (routes 1 and 5).

Bob 9/1/08

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Schneider Fred" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 6:29 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Route 5 passing siding


> Duquesne Light Company still has wires on the North Side.
>
> If you mean trolley wires ... depends on the route.   From the 1942
> on Superior - Shadeland 30 April 1966 on 21 and 6/13.   He gave you a
> year for Spring Garden.
>
> I thought you lived there in a previous life?  l
>
>
> On Aug 31, 2008, at 2:48 PM, Boris Cefer wrote:
>
>> When did the wires go down on the North Side???
>>
>> B
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bob Rathke" <bobrathke at comcast.net>
>> To: "Pittsburgh Trolley List" <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 7:28 PM
>> Subject: [PRCo] Route 5 passing siding
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>> Some time ago, there was a discussion on this list regarding the
>> route =
>> 5-Spring Hill line which was single track from Spring Garden Avenue =
>> north to the loop at Rhine and Buente Streets.  Attached is a photo
>> I =
>> took of the passing siding on Itin Street, about midway on the hill =
>> climbing segment of the line - the photo was taken from Goehring St. =
>> looking north. The passing siding was known locally as, "The Switch".
>>
>> The photo was taken on November 2, 1969, about 12 years after route
>> 5 =
>> trolleys were abandoned.
>>
>> Bob 8/31/08
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