[PRCo] South Hills Jct Question

Dwight Long dwightlong at verizon.net
Sat May 24 04:26:46 EDT 2014


Derrick

Yup, that’s the one.

Dwight

From: D Brashear 
Sent: Friday, 23 May, 2014 22:56
To: Western PA Trolley discussion 
Subject: Re: [PRCo] South Hills Jct Question
This one? http://bit.ly/1jFMWKW

On Friday, May 23, 2014, Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net> wrote:

> 30th Street CH was razed sometime in 1939; don't know when it was disused.
> At some point  the loop was flipped from one side of the street to the
> other, I believe.
>
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> Fred
>
> Do your records show when Carson Street Car House closed?  And when it was
> demolished? Also, was the loop there changed at some point in time or was
> it
> always adjacent to the car house or former car house?
>
> Dwight
>
> From: Fred Schneider
> Sent: Friday, 23 May, 2014 11:00
> To: Western PA Trolley discussion
> Subject: Re: [PRCo] South Hills Jct Question
> Looks like the old shop building which was later used as a vehicle repair
> shop.   But you are telling me it does not exist so I cannot help.
>
> At least it is at the same location.
>
> Until the Depression, heavy overhauls were scattered all over the system .
> Tunnel, Manchester, Homewood.   I think that's all.   Early in the 1930s
> they closed Tunnel and Manchester overhaul shops and concentrated all
> overhaul work at Homewood and instituted a scheduled maintenance program.
> They also closed a bunch of carbarns like McKeesport, Wilmerding, Castle
> Shannon, Rankin.   I have no idea when Point Bridge closed . probably
> earlier.
>
>
> On May 22, 2014, at 10:15 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:
>
> > http://mapq.st/1vOTLyW
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