[PRCo] Re: Anybody Here Know Anything About This?

[Joshua Dunfield]

2009/2/25 Phillip Clark Campbell <pcc_sr at yahoo.com>:
> Believe there was a Twin trolleybus demonstration in downtown Pittsburgh in the
> summer of 1936(?)  Believe it pre-dated the arrival of PCC 100 so it must have
> been Spring.  It looped Grant, 7th, Smithfield, Liberty to Grant using the
> available streetcar wire on all streets with ground strung alongside.
> Here is one photo at Dave's:
> http://www.davesrailpix.com/pitts/htm/pitt134.htm

Yes, that picture is also on the site Ken linked to:

http://www.trolleybuses.net/earlyops/htm/usa_h_earlyops_pit_demo_01.htm

There are two more pictures of it there.  The picture linked below is
of the 700 block of Grant Street, consistent with your description of
the loop.

http://www.trolleybuses.net/earlyops/htm/usa_h_earlyops_pit_demo_03.htm

-j.