[PRCo] Re: Hays
Dwight Long
dwightlong at verizon.net
Mon Apr 16 21:47:43 EDT 2012
Herb
Yes. That was Rt. 52, about which I've been yammering.
Dwight
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From: "Herb Brannon" <hrbran at cavtel.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 9:33 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Hays
> Check out the track map. You believed correctly.
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 20:43, Fonda J Hollenbaugh
> <violets13 at comcast.net>wrote:
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>> There was no ridership between Hays and 36th Street. I believe the
>> railways
>> ran a shuttle between 30th and 36th Street up to the end of the war. By
>> that
>> time the J&L mill had been expanded and any homes in that area had been
>> torn
>> down. At the war's end, a ride check was done of all the trips and it was
>> found out that no one was riding. A bus replaced the yellow car for a
>> week
>> and service on the shuttle was removed when it was found that no one was
>> riding the bus either. I heard that one years ago from Art Ellis, a
>> museum
>> member that started with that Railways in 1946.
>> George Gula
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