[PRCo] Re: Black's Bridge, Crafton

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Yes.  California Avenue.  Sorry about that...other side of town!  And the
aging factor.

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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 1:14 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Black's Bridge, Crafton

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=FcdaAAAAIBA
> J&sjid
> =mmwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7133,5763153
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> Derrick
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Derrick