[PRCo] Re: Reading old newspapers

[Derrick Brashear]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:
> A public reply to Matt Berry:
>
> I did discover, Matt Berry, that you can simply browse the Pittsburgh Press from day 1 to day 365 if you wish column by column, page by page looking for things that are relevant.
>
> Your piece by Ivan Saunders' editorial on riding the 56 McKeesport cars just before the abandonment prompted me to see if there was a way to browse by pages and look for the abandonment.   Hmmm.  Yes, you can.
>
> And in the process I came across the story of the big storm that wiped out the Glassport line.   I'll post it shortly.   I'll also post the articles about some of the other damage in Glassport because I think it was also relevant.   People rode the trolleys to go to work and if the factories were shuttered by the storm, that too is important.

You mean the US Glass plant water tower incident? Did anything else close then?



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Derrick