[PRCo] Re: West Carson Street

[Herb Brannon]

Too bad the information is in Vol 1. Of course I have Vol 2 which deals
mostly with limited access highway plans.
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 15:26, Derrick Brashear <shadow at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> > 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
> >>
> >> -----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
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Herb Brannon
In Cuyahoga Valley National Park