[PRCo] Second avenue tracks

[Fred Schneider]

When we are old men and it happened 52-54 years ago, Tom, we do forget the exact details.      

Now tell me what blocks of 2nd and 5th were done???   Points go for remembering it exactly.   :<)

Went to lunch today with three former high school classmates (we graduated 56 years ago).   We get together once a month or so to find some unusual food … today was Indian cuisine.   It was a great example of four guys trying to remember the past.   Two of us are having trouble walking … I am one of those … and that is difficult when I remember the days I could start a day on the Norside and walk to Library or Carnegie carrying a ton of camera gear.




On May 12, 2014, at 8:42 PM, TEP wrote:

> Whoops my message got snatched--got to remember not to use any HTLM.
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> Thinking back to 1962-63 I remember riding, at speed, on 2nd Ave on what 
> was very new, very loud concrete track. Not the last major job, I 
> remember (I think) a long stretch on Fifth Avenue being relaid in 63 or 64.
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> Tom Parkinson P.Eng, Vancouver BC Canada 604-733-5430, cell 604-733-5437
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> On 12/05/2014 17:21, Fred Schneider wrote:
>> I cannot remember when it was done but my memory was that there was a Second Avenue rail project either near the very tail end of PRC's existence or the very beginning of PAT … probably the last rail job in the city for streetcars.   If the memory isn't flawed, it was t-rail set in concrete.   fws
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>> On May 12, 2014, at 7:26 PM, George W. Gula wrote:
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>>> When I arrived in Pittsburgh in 1975, Second Avenue had exposed unused
>>> tracks set in concrete from the 10th Street Bridge to the B&O RR overpass
>>> at Irvine Street & Greenfield Avenue. The switches there were also
>>> showing. Browns Hill Road had concrete-set track in it from the top of the
>>> hill at Hazelwood Avenue to the bridge.
>>> 
>>> **
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