[PRCo] Re: West Carson Street

[Derrick Brashear]

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Except that I can't get beyond a brief excerpt from this link.

No, all you can get is a list of libraries that hold it.

> -----Original Message-----
> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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>> 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