[PRCo] Re: Last Motorman on Verona Line

[Edward H. Lybarger]

There's even more to the story, and it's found in the PRC track sketches.
And both the track sketches and the route cards are incomplete.  The track
through Oakmont was abandoned in two stages, and removed by the borough
rather than the company.  The northern extremity then was Plum Street, just
north of the viaduct.  Then it was cut back to Wildwood Avenue shortly
before abandonment.

All my notes, along with the Allegheny County and George Tucker photos (all
of which we located on a recent inspection trip) are in the route file at
the PTM Library.  The line was old, but it was early enough to appear on the
15-minute topos, and appears in its entirety in the plat maps.  What's
probably not well understood is that for most of its life, the line's
southern terminus was not Wilkinsburg, but rather Braddock Avenue, and
Hutchinson Avenue was the southmost intersecting street to which it ran.

Ed

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Subject: [PRCo] Re: Last Motorman on Verona Line

As Paul Harvey said, and now the rest of the story.....

The newspaper story mentions cutbacks.   On October 19, 1935 service from
Oakmont to Hulton was discontinued due to construction work and a bus
shuttle was instituted.  Then on August 16, 1937, due to construction work
on the new Oakmont - Verona viaduct, the cars were turned short at Wildwood
Avenue near Front Street in Verona.   

March 28, 1938 it becomes 78 Laketon Road transfer essentially what it was
in 1902.   However, until April 2, when a crossover was installed, cars ran
along Robinson Blvd. to Dream City Hill to cross over and return to
Wilkinsburg.   



On Apr 21, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Barry, Matthew R wrote:

> March 1938 - Buses replaces trolleys on Verona line
> http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KU0bAAAAIBAJ&sjid=D0wEAAAAIBAJ&dq
> =verona%20trolley&pg=3944%2C4674973
> 
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