[PRCo] Re: These guys knew how to do it right!

[John Swindler]

Hi Fred

 

The 1917 accident was covered in Trolley Fare some years ago from Pittsburgh newspaper clippings found in the state library.  Copies of the news clippings were also dropped off with you at the L&I building. 

 

Cheers

John  

 

 

 

 
> From: fwschneider at comcast.net
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: These guys knew how to do it right!
> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 19:24:36 -0500
> To: mjh007 at verizon.net; pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> 
> Thanks Mike. I forwarded to a group I'm in.
> This is good. Far from being comprehensive but interesting in that 
> it shows that newspaper types shouted then too. I like the part 
> about the accident on the steep hill in West Wilkinsburg PA 
> (Pittsburgh) where there really isn't any hill but a story about an 
> out of control car plummeting down a hill on Penn Avenue at Trenton 
> Avenue in "West Wilkinsburg" ... look for it under Pittsburgh. I 
> picked up on that right away because by great grandmother's last home 
> in 1914 doesn't exist today; the hospital took over its site. So I 
> knew where Trenton Avenue in Pittsburgh was.
> 
> This horrible grade? Might be 1/10th of one percent outbound on 
> Penn Avenue. You can see from the Bing photo below that there is no 
> noticeable foundation slope on any of the buildings along Penn Avenue.
> 
> http://www3.gendisasters.com/pennsylvania/1595/pittsburgh%2C-pa- 
> interurban-wreck%2C-feb-1907
> 
> http://www.bing.com/maps/? 
> showupgrade=1#JnE9eXAucGVubislMjYrdHJlbnRvbithdmVzJTJjK3dpbGtpbnNidXJnJT 
> JjK3BhJTdlc3N0LjAlN2VwZy4xJmJiPTU1LjIwNjYyNTg5NjExODglN2UtOTMuNjE2MTY1MT 
> YxNSU3ZTEzLjg4NTI5MjYyMTc0NCU3ZS0xNTAuMTI5ODM3MDM2NQ==
> 
> Interestingly, note that the great 1917 trolley runaway that 
> triggered the Pittsburgh Railways bankruptcy is also on page 5 of the 
> railway accident list. Amusingly the source is not any Pittsburgh 
> paper but the Oakland (California Tribune. And don't try to convince 
> me that an accident can be so bad that it forces the corporation 
> under. Rather the accident might be so bad that it is the final straw 
> the breaks the camel's back. That accident needs more research to 
> tell us how much money PRC had been losing in the previous years to 
> the underliners? Who was milking them? What was the debt service 
> load in relation to income? Were they simply self insuring 
> themselves because they couldn't afford to buy a policy?
> 
> 
> On Jan 6, 2010, at 10:19 AM, Michael Hermesky wrote:
> 
> >
> > http://www3.gendisasters.com/pennsylvania/12327/york-pa-near- 
> > trolley-car-collision-sep-1905
> > ________________________
> > Mike Hermesky
> > 717.940.2692
> 
> 
> 
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