[PRCo] PRCo Deadly Streets

Thu Sep 5 16:01:23 EDT 2013

I've seen this one before.  Pretty definitive.  There's another that we used
in an exhibit a number of years back that showed a giant loop out the 39 and
down the hill to South Bank -- the line that was open for a couple months in
1910, the one that went where exactly nobody lived!  I thought I had a scan
of it but I can't find it.

Officers of the Freehold Realty firm bore an amazing resemblance to those of
the railway company.

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[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounces at mailman.dementix.org] On Behalf Of Herb
Brannon
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 2:36 PM
To: Western PA Trolley discussion
Subject: Re: [PRCo] PRCo Deadly Streets

Ed,
Here's another real estate ad from the era of Brookline expansion. At least
this company shows the trolley as the means to travel to and from Brookline
rather than the Liberty Tunnels.

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net> wrote:

>
> I wonder what Carmen  Monoxide would think about that?
>
> Dwight
>
> From: Edward H. Lybarger
> Sent: Thursday, 05 September, 2013 11:32
> To: 'Western PA Trolley discussion'
> Subject: Re: [PRCo] PRCo Deadly Streets Real estate people haven't 
> changed much through the years.  The product is always described 
> better than it is.  This is a super example, Herb!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounces at mailman.dementix.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounces at mailman.dementix.org] On Behalf Of 
> Herb Brannon
> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 10:54 AM
> To: Western PA Trolley discussion
> Subject: Re: [PRCo] PRCo Deadly Streets
>
> This realty company advertisement from 1924 is interesting. It shows 
> scores of people walking through the Liberty Tunnels using four 
> sidewalks. In the late 1920s, early 1930s auto traffic had to be 
> restricted by limiting the number of vehicles in the tunnels at any 
> given time. This was done because many drivers were actually becoming 
> Carbon Monoxide victims during peak traffic periods when traffic would 
> be standing in the tunnels. This also brought about the installation 
> of a ventilation system to keep the air somewhat clean inside the 
> tubes. I could imagine that the majority of those pedestrians, walking 
> through the tubes in the advertisement, would never make out the other end
do to Carbon Monoxide gas.
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Fred Schneider
> <fwschneider at comcast.net>wrote:
>
> > And I walked through the much shorter Armstrong Tunnel from the 10th St.
> > Bridge.   We were both nutz as kidz.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sep 5, 2013, at 8:48 AM, BobDietrich wrote:
> >
> > > The south portal of the Liberty Tubes was rated so deadly because 
> > > it was
> > so
> > > detrimental to the health of the guys who had to work there.  Can 
> > > you imagine breathing the exhaust of all those cars all day on top 
> > > of the
> > normal
> > > city pollution.
> > >
> > > This reminds me of a stunt I pulled that I'll bet none of you were 
> > > dumb enough to do - I rode my bike through the Tubes one day.  
> > > We'll I think I walked it most of the way.  It was back when they 
> > > still had a sidewalk
> > about
> > > three feet above the roadway so I was not in the traffic.  It 
> > > still
> > scared
> > > the crap out of me.
> > >
> > > Bob
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: pittsburgh-railways-bounces at mailman.dementix.org
> > > [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounces at mailman.dementix.org] On 
> > > Behalf Of Lattner, Raymond
> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013 11:12 AM
> > > To: Western PA Trolley discussion (
> > pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org)
> > > Subject: [PRCo] PRCo Deadly Streets
> > >
> > > Any to add?
> > >
> > >
> > http://www.brooklineconnection.com/history/Facts/Roads1930/DeadlyRoa
> > ds
> > .html
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Ray
> > >
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