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

[John Swindler]

There was a 6/15 during the 1950s, but it ended about the time I started Sunday/Holicay pass riding.  Never encountered.   6/13 was what I recall off peaks, and became only 6/14 by the end due to three (???) PRC/PAT bridges west of Avalon Loop.  The last two northside routes were 21 and 6/14.  PAT was stuck with maintenance of these bridges which probably date back to pre-PRC days and single truck streetcar weights.  PAT might still have ownership - Winston Simmonds recently mention during a rail safety meeting that PAT still 'owns' six (?) highway bridges, with others on west end.  Corrections appreciated.
 
 
 

> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Jack's Run Bridge, a/k/a High Bridge
> From: fwschneider at comcast.net
> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 19:35:16 -0500
> CC: dwightlong at verizon.net; ge13031 at yahoo.com; artwheeler at trolleybuses.net; billvigrass at verizon.net; hassel8 at comcast.net; pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
> To: jackmay135 at gmail.com
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> I could be mistaken but I think 6/13 and 6/14 were evening services. Route 15 handled California Avenue in the evening.
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> On Feb 9, 2012, at 6:38 PM, Jack May wrote:
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> > 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. 
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> > Jack
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> > ----- 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
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > Dwight
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