[PRCo] Re: Incline abandonment dates

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Yesterday I took the list published on the tripod.com site and looked for
additional data in Mac McGrew's research.  Here's what I found ("closed" =
last day of operation):

Monongahela:  opened 5-28-1870
Mt. Oliver: closed 7-6-51 (This was a Friday...does someone want to check
the paper to be sure?  Usually the last day was Saturday, but this may have
been M-F service only at the end.)
Monongahela Freight: closed 10-11-35
Penn: closed 11-28-53
Bellevue: says closed 1893
Knoxville: closed 12-3-60
Castle Shannon North: closed 6-20-64
Castle Shannon South: says opened 1891
Clifton: route was Strauss St., N.S. to Clifton Park
Norwood: route was Island Ave. to Norwood Place
Fort Pitt: closed 1902

Ed

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From: Derrick Brashear <shadow at gmail.com>
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12/3/60 for the Knoxville. 


http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?rgn1=ic_all;xc=1;g=
imls;sort=dc_da;q1=Incline;size=20;c=hpicasc;c=hpicchatham;c=hpiccma;c=hpich
swp;c=hpicmonroeville;c=hpicnpl;c=hpicoakmont;c=hpicphlf;c=hpicpitcairn;c=hp
icpointpark;back=back1332219787;subview=detail;resnum=140;view=entry;lastvie
w=thumbnail;cc=hpicphlf;entryid=x-408-knox-10-1;viewid=0340.TIF

Derrick

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The inclines never interested me but I have seen this site before:
http://riid.tripod.com/inclines.html

Maybe I found the Url in the archives here.

I know I found information on Brookline here; this website also details some
of the inclines:
http://www.brooklineconnection.com/history/Facts/Inclines.html


Phil