[PRCo] pittsburgh but sorta railways

[D Brashear]

On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 11:34 PM, Holland, James B. <PRCoPCC at p-r-co.com>
wrote:

> > On Tue Sep 2 22:39:21 EDT 2014, D Brashear shadow at dementix.org wrote:
> > How about the proposed "Railway Express" carbarn in Emsworth?
> >
> >
> http://bradystewartphoto.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Living-in-Western-Pennsylvania-1950-1960/G0000IC1n5UIMMCw/I0000KehJ96IVSus
> >
> > --
> > Daria
>
> Quoted from website:
>
>         Emsworth PA: View a street in Emsworth where Railway Express
>         wanted to lease the building on the right to store and service
>         trolley cars. The assignment was for the law firm of Reed,
>         Smith, Shaw and McClay who was representing Railway Express in
>         trying to get the local zoning law changed - 1951
>
> Did labels for pictures get shuffled?  REA 'service' TrolleyCars? This
> seems like a Solution chasing a non-existent problem.  What kind of
> service -- pull in and out for a quick gas and lube?
>
> Whose TrolleyCars?  The handwriting was already visible -- PRCo
> ridership was dropping.  PRCo coming out of bankruptcy was BROKE. They
> did not have money to purchase maintenance contracts. TrolleyCars across
> the country were disappearing fast.
>
> MUCH more info needed; this does not make sense.  Maybe it is the hour.
>

This is the same website that calls Cumberland Narrows "East McKeesport".
In the same album he calls the intersection on Lebanon Church at the former
Union Railroad slag dump
underpass the Pleasant Hills cloverleaf.

I treat all the captions as suspect.

--
Daria



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