[PRCo] Re: Last Motorman on Verona Line

[Fred Schneider]

But the track that was removed by the borough of Oakmont was still the streets in the 1950s.   They didn't do a stunning job of removal.   You remember, Ed, that I grew up in Penn Township in Crescent Hills, about a half mile above that famous bridge at Sandy Creek for which we have the postcard image.   When I was a kid my dad pointed out to me where that bridge was one day when we were walking down to the Allegheny River.   

And Oakmont?   Why for years dad had a barber over there.   I remember the rails in the yellow brick street on the south side of and parallel to the Allegheny Valley Railroad (aka PRR).   


On Aug 23, 2010, at 8:13 AM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> 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.
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> 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.
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> Ed
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> Schneider
> Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 9:14 PM
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> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Last Motorman on Verona Line
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> As Paul Harvey said, and now the rest of the story.....
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> 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.   
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> 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.   
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> On Apr 21, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Barry, Matthew R wrote:
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>> 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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