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

[Derrick Brashear]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net> wrote:
> Derrick
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> If the answer is not contained in the various exchanges amongst Steve Ticanal, Ed Lybarger, and me, then I don’t have one.  I did not keep a file on that series of exchanges.  Perhaps you did, as you seem to have quoted from one of my several emails on the subject.

I did. None of us seem to have known at least at the time. More
particularly I don't think it came up beyond what's quoted here that
anything came before. If I find more information I will share it, but
to this point I don't think the collective we know (or at least if we
do, have talked about) the info.

I have the whole list in my gmail inbox, so searching is pretty much
as simple as typing what i'm after into the search box. I also have
various of my own mail in my inbox going back to the early 90s.

> Dwight
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> From: Derrick Brashear
> Sent: Monday, 20 February, 2012 22:36
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Fw: Re: Beaver Valley Transit
> Since I'm dredging up every other random thing tonight, let's keep firing.
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> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QYkiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Ja0FAAAAIBAJ&dq=beaver-valley-traction%20duss&pg=3497%2C3069774
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> 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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