[PRCo] Re: Fw: [Mileage] PAT Penn Sta. Spur

[Dwight Long]

List

Thanks to all who provided clarification on the Overbrook line issue.  I 
have issued a correction to the list on which this item appeared.

I suppose I should have said "along former routes C, W, and 37" to make it 
crystal clear that I was not just talking about service TO Castle Shannon 
via Overbrook, but ALL service along the former P&CS narrow gauge route, 
which is what the other list's posting stated had  been discontinued.

BTW, the former service along New Arlington Avenue was Rt. 49-Beltzhoover. 
The service that PAT cobbled together for their "over the hill, not through 
it" line used part of Rt. 49 and part of Rt. 48-Arlington to get from the 
Panhandle bridge to South Hills Jct. I assume that track will be left in 
situ for use in case of tunnel mishaps or maintenance. Rt. 52 was a shuttle 
("Transfer" in PRC speak) running upriver on Carson Street from the Rt. 
50-Carson loop.  It was gone by the late 40s or early 50s.

Dwight

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From: "Herb Brannon" <hrbran at cavtel.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2012 4:17 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Fw: [Mileage] PAT Penn Sta. Spur


> Click on the blue link below to view the current (as of 3/25/2012) rail
> system map of PATransit. There is no service shown to Penn Station. Also 
> no
> service is shown on the old Rt 52-Allentown (Brown Line). I'm not sure I
> understand what you mean by "No more service along former route 37?". The
> Blue Line and the Red Line both serve Castle Shannon. I was just on a Blue
> Line train last week which ran via Overbrook to Castle Shannon.
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 16:05, Joshua Dunfield <joshuad at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
>> On 15 April 2012 21:45, Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net> wrote:
>> > List
>> >
>> > Is this correct?  No more service along former route 37?
>>
>> Maybe he meant the Arlington Avenue service (52 Allentown, more
>> recently called the Brown Line).  Wikipedia says that was canceled in
>> March 2011, though, not 2012.
>>
>> > Also, I had thought service to Union Station had ended some time ago.
>>  Did it end and then get reinstated, or what?  When I rode the first
>> afternoon trip a few years ago, the motorman had to stop and unlock the
>> gate in the cyclone fence and move it off the tracks.  Hardly rapid 
>> transit!
>>
>> IIRC, in the early '00s there were exactly two afternoon trips from
>> Penn Station.  Wikipedia backs me up there:
>>
>> "As late as 2001, the line would only see, if any, up to two afternoon
>> rush hour trains. ... The station continues to be used in extremely
>> limited circumstances, including usage as part of the Port Authority's
>> detoured transportation routes following Super Bowl XLV on 6 February
>> 2011.[6]"
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_Station_(PAT_station)
>>
>> -j.
>>
>>
>>
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