[PRCo] Re: Fw: Re: Beaver Valley Transit

[Derrick Brashear]

Since I'm dredging up every other random thing tonight, let's keep firing.

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net> wrote:

> Ambridge:  Double track ended at 4th Street on Merchant Street.  A single track loop ran toward the river on 4th, upriver on Maplewood, and back to Merchant on 1st Street. Through Ambridge’s business district on its main street, Merchant, the line was double tracked to 14th and up this street to Duss and then left on Duss.  The “extension” to Ohioview Ave. may have been the original line constructed by the French Point Street Railway in 1906.  There was no remnant of this that I can recall as far back as the 1950s. The line was opened to Baden in 1907, and was double track along Duss Avenue and State Street, the latter in Baden.  In Baden the Pittsburgh & Beaver linked up with BVT. There is no reason to believe that there was any deviation off Duss Avenue as suggested by old maps. Ed’s assumptions are right—plus he has the official documents!  Indeed, the trolley company built a one-thousand foot bridge over Logstown Run on Duss Avenue, later used as Pa. 88 (now 65!
>  , but relocated toward the river from here).  This bridge was torn down in 1934 after cessation of tram service between Ambridge and Freedom on 4 October of that year.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QYkiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Ja0FAAAAIBAJ&dq=beaver-valley-traction%20duss&pg=3497%2C3069774

In 1921 BVT asked to "use Duss Avenue also" in addition to their
current entrance to the borough. So what was the other entrance?


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Derrick