[PRCo] Re: PRR Remains

Dwight Long dwightlong at verizon.net
Fri Jan 13 01:35:51 EST 2012


Derrick

Any others of what?

Dwight

From: Derrick Brashear 
Sent: Thursday, 12 January, 2012 15:19
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org 
Subject: [PRCo] Re: PRR Remains
you don't happen to have any of the others, do you?

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Bob Rathke <bobrathke at comcast.net> wrote:
> I meant to say that the PRR's Ohio River commuter train went to Beaver Falls.
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> From: "Bob Rathke" <bobrathke at comcast.net>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 1:49:21 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: PRR Remains
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> Attached is a scan of the last Pittsburgh-Kiskiminitas Jct. commuter timetable, 4/26/64.
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> The PRR also had a commuter train on the west side of the Allegheny River between Pittsburgh and Schenley. Plus commuter trains to Derry, Steubenville, Elrama and Beaver
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> Falls.  All were discontinued in October, 1964, but the Elrama run ended earlier.
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> In the 1950's the line through Brady's Bend was a point of interest described at the observation platform above the r iver, but I never saw a train moving on the line at that point.
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> From: "Derrick Brashear" <shadow at gmail.com>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 1:30:15 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: PRR Remains
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> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Herb Brannon <hrbran at cavtel.net> wrote:
>> In the photo of Brady's Bend Tunnel there is a steel structure similar to
>> an incline plane running above the entrance. Is this an incline? I'm not
>> familiar with the location of this tunnel.
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> Looks like a drainage flume to me.
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Derrick






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