[PRCo] Re: Streetcars in the Strip District?

[John Swindler]

Wasn't the route up Becks Run part of Brentwood Motor Coach??
 

 

> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:50:35 -0400
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Streetcars in the Strip District?
> From: shadow at gmail.com
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
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> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:19 AM, John Swindler <j_swindler at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> there wasn't much past 30th st, and even less after J&L took that
> swath of the neighborhood to expand their mill.
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> the 50 busline continued up the hill on Becks Run and served the areas
> where the Spencer/Willett and Churchview buses used to, but it was
> peak trips only, and even those got the axe now.
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> Derrick
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