[PRCo] Re: Vic Cianca Directing Traffic - Grant Street, 1975

[Phillip Clark Campbell]

Mr.Brannon,
I enjoy your personal experiences operating trolleys like this and
your work on COT cars.  Please share more as you remember.

Phil




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>From: Herb Brannon <hrbran at cavtel.net>
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 10:19 PM
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Vic Cianca Directing Traffic - Grant Street, 1975
>
>An excellent video. I remember Vic Cianca throughout the years I ran
>trolleys. He spent many years at Ft Pitt Blvd and Smithfield Street. He
>always seemed to slightly favor the trolleys on the Shannon routes coming
>east on Ft Pitt. If traffic at Ft Pitt & Smithfield didn't move fast enough
>then the backup would extend west on Ft Pitt with autos blocking the trolley
>tracks for streetcars coming off Wood St. Vic always kept the traffic moving
>so trolleys could make that left turn and he would move the Ft Pitt traffic
>so trolleys coming from both Wood and Grant could make it onto the
>Smithfield Street Bridge with not too much of a delay.
>He was certainly a bit of Pittsburgh history.
>