[PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh, Knoxville and St Clair Railway

[Derrick Brashear]

http://www.lifeinwesternpa.org/viewDetail.asp?SpecSub=Cars%2CStreetcars&title=Transportation+-%3E+Cars%2FStreetcars&ID=118#

suggests the portion along Brosville (Birmingham, at the time) used
trollers, anyway...

On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Derrick Brashear <shadow at dementia.org> wrote:
> It was a Daft operation, so that seemed conceivable, but there's no obvious sign of it between the sidewalk and the ramp.
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> I dumped what I could find into a wikipedia article, and corrected another that claimed it was an. 1870s incline.
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> Derrick
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> On Aug 1, 2010, at 1:28 AM, Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net> wrote:
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>> Derrick
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>> From the photo,it looks more like a cable in a slot between the rails than a rack.
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>> Dwight
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>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>  From: Derrick Brashear
>>  To: Pittsburgh Railways Group
>>  Sent: Saturday, 31 July, 2010 11:41
>>  Subject: [PRCo] Pittsburgh, Knoxville and St Clair Railway
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>>  I could swear we talked about this, but I find no evidence...
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>>  Apparently this came back what is now South 13th St in the South Side,
>>  then just before reaching the PV&C (PRR Mon Division) tracks, turned
>>  left between two houses, and went up a ramp, turning hard right *over*
>>  South 14th and jumping over the railroad, before heading up what is
>>  now Brosville. Was there in the 1890s, and was gone by 1901,
>>  presumably because the line over New Arlington Avenue was faster,
>>  lower maintenance, and served more people, and also this approximately
>>  paralleled the Knoxville Incline?
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>>  Related:
>>  http://www.lifeinwesternpa.org/viewDetail.asp?SpecSub=Cars%2CStreetcars&title=Transportation+-%3E+Cars%2FStreetcars&ID=119
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>>  This was the rack (geared) operation, presumably?
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>>  --
>>  Derrick
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Derrick