[PRCo] Re: Post-Gazette photo archives

[Dwight Long]

Fred

Rts 2 and 3 Crumped in 1952, toward the end of August AIR.  The stated 
reason was the desire of the Pa. Hwy Dept to repave a part of East Ohio 
Street without car tracks.  I take it from this information, of which I was 
not aware at the time, that the repaving was outbound from Millvale CH?

Dwight

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 4:26 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Post-Gazette photo archives


> The track department kept their operation at Millvale for some time 
> afterward until it was moved to Glenwood.   I remember taking a bus out to 
> Millvale in April 1955 and photographing the work cars in the track yard.
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> On Aug 9, 2012, at 12:18 PM, Barry, Matthew R wrote:
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>> Unfortunately, a very tragic story accompanying the photo.  Wow.
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>> My hunch is those tracks weren't removed or paved over for several years 
>> to come.  Even in the early to mid-60s, the tracks would appear through 
>> the asphalt, further up East Ohio, just beyond the 40th Street Bridge, 
>> along the whole section where the Millvale car house was.   And a full 
>> section of tracks ramping up toward Etna on East Ohio existed for years 
>> just beyond Evergreen Road.   Always caused a little bit of melancholy 
>> for me, I think, never having witnessed any Millvale or Etna cars in 
>> action.    Right across the river, we were busy riding the Frankstown and 
>> flying fraction cars a great deal.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org 
>> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org] On Behalf Of 
>> Derrick Brashear
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 1:04 PM
>> To: Pittsburgh Railways Group
>> Subject: [PRCo] Post-Gazette photo archives
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>> A look at some of their old photos.
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>> The notable one for us is at the bottom of the page, when East Ohio 
>> Street still had tracks and was not effectively a semi-limited access 
>> highway.
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>> http://pgdigs.tumblr.com/
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>> Derrick
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