[PRCo] Route 56

[Fred Schneider]

I just had a conversation with Ed … the usual family type conversation … how are the kids and wife etc. … but I also wanted to find out something else and that was, where was the end of the elevated in Dravosburg.   I had seen a picture looking onto the Mon River bridge from the west end showing the elevated structure and a curve in it.   Ed's answer was the el only came off the bridge parallel to McClure Street, curved around parallel to Maple Avenue and then ended.   

The tracks that Ed mentioned existing today in Brick paving are in Maple Avenue.

The private right-of-way that trended northwest to southeast from 3rd and Richland down to Maple near Hill Street appears to have become the four lane approach to the new Mansfield Bridge in 1948.     The new construction simple curved eastward and wiped out the old Hill Street and whatever was in its path and went onto the new bridge.  

Now if I could just figure out who that sexy 17-year-old morsel was that I photographed in 1959 about to climb on a PCC at the Horseshoe Curve above  Dravosburg.   She looked at me and said, "Should I smile?"   And you guys know what a 19-year-old on leave from the army had on his mind at that moment and it's wasn't 1056.   (Picture attached)  (Hard to believe she would be 72 now.)    This was the same day that the West End lines were running their last trips and therefore this was the end for the 1000s and 1100s as soon as the equipment shuffle took place.   (






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