[PRCo] Re: West Carson Street

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Except that I can't get beyond a brief excerpt from this link.

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From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org] On Behalf Of Derrick
Brashear
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 11:45 AM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: West Carson Street

If they did, I bet it would be in here:
Mass transportation study of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County, Volume 1
http://books.google.com/books?id=xWpAAAAAIAAJ&q=%22allegheny+conference%22+%
22point+bridge%22+1949&dq=%22allegheny+conference%22+%22point+bridge%22+1949
&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QqdPT_epOsiJsQKI68XADg&ved=0CEYQ6AEwAQ

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net>
wrote:
> Somewhere I saw an article that said PRC acknowledged to (I believe) 
> the Allegheny Conference in 1949 that they would not be operating 
> streetcars over the new bridge.  I fervently wish I could find the 
> reference, because it would demonstrate that the later commotion about 
> replacing money-losing West End trolley routes with buses was a bunch 
> of crocodile tears designed to get someone else to pay for the buses 
> and let PRC of easy on the paving obligations.
>
> Ed
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org] On Behalf Of 
> George W. Gula
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 10:55 AM
> To: Pittsburgh Railways
> Subject: [PRCo] West Carson Street
>
> I think we're going too far with this thing. If the intersection was 
> being ripped up anyway so the normal curves could be replaced, perhaps 
> the PRCo was covering all bases by putting extra rails in at that 
> time. After all, the rennessaince was already being discussed and that 
> would have included the Fort Pitt Bridge. Perhaps they just wanted 
> extra flexibilty to shift cars around as the new bridge was being 
> built. No one could have foreseen that the trolleys would have been banned
from the bridge in 1949.
> George
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Derrick