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

[Dwight Long]

Derrick

OMG--you must have a ton of stuff in your poor computer!

I erase everything after the file is closed.  If it seems at the time to be 
worth keeping, I print a copy.  Don't do this too often, have way too much 
paper as it is!

Dwight

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Derrick Brashear" <shadow at gmail.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 12:34 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Fw: Re: Beaver Valley Transit


> 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
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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
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