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

[Derrick Brashear]

gmail isn't my computer, but I do have 8 terabytes of disk spinning at home.
It's how, for instance, I have the USGS historical topos covering Pennsylvania
close at hand, dozens of gigabytes of them.

You've forgotten what I do for a living: I work on networked computer
filesystems.

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> 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
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Derrick
>>>
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>>>
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>> --
>> Derrick
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Derrick