[PRCo] Re: Black's Bridge, Crafton

[Derrick Brashear]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net> wrote:
> I think we'd need to study public utility law and its application by the
> PSC/PUC to see what happens in the case of disused facilities taken over by
> another governmental agency.  West Penn, for example, sold its
> Scottdale-Everson bridge to the Department of Highways, so the
> responsibility clearly went with it.  We'd also need to review the decisions
> in the West End Abandonment; there were some exceptions made.  PAT still
> owns, I believe, the bridges on Ohio River Blvd.

California Avenue?

> I could be wrong on
> that...maybe when they were rebuilt at PAT expense PennDOT took them over.
>
> Ed
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org] On Behalf Of Barry,
> Matthew R
> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 1:00 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Black's Bridge, Crafton
>
> Was PAT essentially let off the hook for a great deal of things that the
> Railways Company would have otherwise been straddled with?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org] On Behalf Of Derrick
> Brashear
> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 12:08 PM
> To: Pittsburgh Railways Group
> Subject: [PRCo] Black's Bridge, Crafton
>
> This bridge has almost been closed more than it was open in recent years. It
> went from being a Pittsburgh Railways bridge to being (at least partly)
> Conrail's problem such that when they abandoned the track where the West
> Busway is now, that Crafton finally ended up with sole ownership.
>
> http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19671130&id=FcdaAAAAIBAJ&sjid
> =mmwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7133,5763153
>
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> Derrick
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Derrick