[PRCo] Re: Jack's Run Bridge, a/k/a High Bridge

[Dwight Long]

Fred

They started out that way but as I recall they were all day at the end.

Dwight

From: Fred Schneider 
Sent: Thursday, 09 February, 2012 19:35
To: Jack May 
Cc: Dwight Long ; 'Dennis Lamont' ; artwheeler at trolleybuses.net ; 'Bill Vigrass' ; hassel8 at comcast.net ; pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org 
Subject: Re: Jack's Run Bridge, a/k/a High Bridge
I could be mistaken but I think 6/13 and 6/14 were evening services.   Route 15 handled California Avenue in the evening.


On Feb 9, 2012, at 6:38 PM, Jack May wrote:


  Thanks.  I recall the bridge very well before North Side abandonments.  Wasn't the 13 combined with the 6 and then cut back to become the 6/14 prior to the buses taking over?   I haven't looked at my PRys sldes for a long time, but I'm sure I have some good views of all the bridges on the line.   

  Jack

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Dwight Long
    To: 'Dennis Lamont'
    Cc: 'Fred Schneider' ; artwheeler at trolleybuses.net ; 'Jack May' ; 'Bill Vigrass' ; hassel8 at comcast.net ; pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
    Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 5:47 PM
    Subject: Jack's Run Bridge, a/k/a High Bridge


    Dennis

    Further to our recent exchange on the (now infamous) Jack’s Run bridge, here is a 1965 shot of Pittsburgh Railways inbound route 13 PCC coming off it. Just to the right of where the picture was taken was the junction with route 6 and the appropriately-named High Bridge loop.

    More interesting to me were the more spindly trestles on this route built by the tramway company but paved over for auto use as well.  The second shot is one from 1959 showing another inbound route 13 PCC but on the Avalon trestle.  It’s unfortunate that the location was so treed in as the full height of the trestle is not apparent.  Both this one and another on the line were quite high.

    Dwight