[PRCo] Re: a plausible take on the Johnstown Horner St abandonment

[Paul Steven]

Here is a link to the full HAER report, with pictures:
http://loc.gov/pictures/item/pa3475/

I have found the Library of Congress Historic American Engineering Record 
collection to be an excellent source of information and easily searchable:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/
-- 
Paul

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Derrick Brashear" <shadow at gmail.com>
To: "Pittsburgh Railways Group" <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 5:24 AM
Subject: [PRCo] a plausible take on the Johnstown Horner St abandonment


http://johnstowncafe.com/johnstownhistorylochornerstreetbridge.pdf

Instead of the usual bit about single-tracking being the problem, the
story here is merchants asked for it concurrent with street repaving.
Yeah, I suppose if the traction company needed to do maintenance
anyway, this might be a good time to switch out the rail service.

-- 
Derrick



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