[PRCo] Re: Streetcars in the Strip District?

[John Swindler]

53 used the Tenth St. bridge and Second Ave.  to downtown.  50 used Carson St. and Smithfield St. bridge.  Both were on Carson 10th to 18th St.  Then 53 went up 18th to Brownsville Rd., while 50 continued on Carson to 30th St.
 
In early years there were two routes that used Tenth St. bridge and two routes on Carson that used Smithfield St.  I think Tenth St. bridge had a short turn at 22nd and Carson.  Routes numbers 50, 51. 52 and 53 were originally used on these Carson St. routes.  But some of the numbers were shifted around over the years.   
 
The shuttle to 36th St. was the remnant of the line from Carson to Hays on south side of Mon River.  There was a Pittsburgh & Birmingham/PRC carbarn at Carson and 30th St., which might have had something to do with 30th being terminal of route 50 Carson.
 
just trying to keep current (lol)
 
Cheers
John
 
 

 

> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:04:43 -0400
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Streetcars in the Strip District?
> From: shadow at gmail.com
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
> 
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> > Derrick
> >
> > Please explain how Rt. 50 diverged from Rt 51, or even vice versa!
> 
> sorry, should have said 53, not 51!
> i have bus on the brain.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Derrick
>