[PRCo] Still more reading from the Pittsburgh Press

[Fred Schneider]

Some of you beside me might remember when trains used the Pennsy (Union) Station at Grant and Liberty Streets in Pittsburgh.  This story tells us that tearing down the train shed and erecting the individual platform sheds will not delay any of the station's 250 daily trains.  Wow.   So many commuter trains.   And in 17 years they were all gone … all that remained were the long distance trains.  And in 24 years it was down to a mobile home and  one Chicago train, one always late St. Louis train, and one additional cross Pennsylvania train.   But the future was bright in 1947 … here is the story about tearing down the trainshed.

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IysbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=3353%2C2398224

Bottom of some page … anudder man tries to prove he is stronger than a moving trolley; loses that war.  Like the Homestead incident a few days earlier, it was an old man.   Maybe hard of hearing or visually challenged????

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IysbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4374%2C2403709

Five passengers hurt when Frankstown car derails.

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JCsbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=5987%2C2859649

Another crash, same day … one streetcar rear ends another.   Sounds like a clear case of pilot error.   Slides into the rear of another car while piloting his car up hill????   As one friend of mine would have said, brakes failed to work in the space allocated for them to function.  

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JCsbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=1608%2C2889962

Not trolley … but a nice article on $600 million the railroads were spending to rebuild after the war.   Then it for two more days.

   http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JCsbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=3812%2C2960178

   http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JSsbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=3783%2C3232435

   http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JisbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4067%2C3513471

Philadelphia Company serves warning that it will appeal if it doesn't get what it wants from the PUC.  Two consecutive days of stores on the hearings.

   http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JSsbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=5256%2C3090484

   http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JisbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4576%2C3361655

   http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JisbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=1584%2C3699688

Six at Woodlawn & Southern Bus Co. caught stealing fares.

    http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JisbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4576%2C3361655

Several days after the Red Arrow derails on the mountain, a car Pullman breaks loose from a train and rolls free down the mountain.

    http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JysbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4159%2C3980744

This is funny as hell … city bill drinking water for a cow in East Liberty that has been dead for six years because the city assessors are so short handed that they haven't visited the property in ten years.

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JysbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6351%2C3993046

AND THIS ENDS FEBRUARY 1947

     


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