3 Towers are air vents for Liberty tunnels which the Pittsburgh & Castle Shannon RR helped built using its now PAT now PRT Blue and Silver line as much of the material P&CS RR dug out was taken up to Park in Belair on top of hill. Add P&CS RR also helped build the Pittsburgh Railways, PAT now PRT Transit tunnel.
Its strange to say but parts of Library that is within Allegheny County is to be serviced by PAT now PRT, but is fully isolated by PAT now PRT as MMVTA is serving it.
Historically the Pittsburgh & Castle Shannon RR operated the Castle Shannon Railroad from Station Square up part way then used roads/ streets to reach the upper station at Arlington Avenue as PAT operated then and now the Overbrook Line cutting off the horseshoe bend in South Hills Junction as part of the horseshoe is where closed off and used steps and transformers are out to where newer bridges bring Blue and Silver lines onto the Pittsburgh & Castle Shannon RR out to Glenbury where P&CS RR was cut ott as LRV's are now along the hillside to have line service Willow Station at Overbrook Junction where Pittsburgh Railways had a trolley barn there.
At Overbrook Junction past Pittsburgh Railways line used cut Pittsburgh & Southern Railroad to reach between Washington Junction, Overbrook Junction and South Hills Village as PAT's early predecessors created a blood bath railroad war over track gauge issues which caused loss of lives as the cut Pittsburgh and Southern RR had a line crossing U.S. 19 down to Banksville Road Park to connect to the Little Saw Mill Run RR that that video can be found in RUclips.
It's Smithfield Street, not Avenue. I visited Pittsburgh many times, for two weeks at a time, filming the street car lines on color movie film. I recorded many sad last rides as well as the lines in general. I started filming in the 1960s. I'm 79 years old now. And sadly a home-bound,.quite ill invalid now. By the way, the PCC cars are now running on Rt. 15 Girard Avenue in Philadelphia. Trolleys are now running again to the rebuilt Westmoreland Loop on Richmond Street after 13 years !!
The open lot where hotel is located today between Liberty Avenue, Penn Avenue, 10th Street and 11th Street was location for offices for the Pittsburgh & Fort Wayne Railroad as where Greyhound is today where PRR built the Greyhound Lines of Pennsylvania Station has buses using its bays on Canal Basin on Spring Way. PA Western Division of PA Canal also had a Canal Basin at PNC Park past Westinghouse location in Allegheny City now North Side.
Library line was cut back from serving areas south along PA 837/ PA 88 south as far as Elco. Plans were to connect to West Penn Railways but never happened. Adding line was pulled back to Drake as trestle lover McMurray Road down to Washington PA was cut. PAT, Allegheny Conference and rest of Board of directors did and still is doing everything to destroy mass transit within Allegheny, Lawrence, Butler, Armstrong, Cambria, Somerset, Westmoreland, Fayette and Washington Counties out into our 8 state areas.
No the loop named West Library is not Simmons loop as West Library loop was used to shorten trips by Pittsburgh Railways not to go to Mon Valley. Simmons loops was always located where the VFW Memorial was at now the location for where LRV's are now looping just within Allegheny County from the Washington County line. Adding to make matters worse Monongahela City is within Allegheny County PAT now PRT should be serving that area not MMVTA. For those of you who disagree with me keep in mind historical marker states Mon. City is within Allegheny County. Simmons Loop is indeed at past Consol mines which is now Apartments next to where Montour Trail is today.
Pittsburgh Railways maybe PAT had served end/start trolleys on AMTRAK property off Liberty Avenue as trolleys looped on AMTRAK parking lot property. B&O had passenger stations on along inbound side of Smithfield Street bridge now on outbound Parkway East then last at 1st Avenue Station at Grant Street where PNC moved its check cashing center too that line passes jail out under PRR's Panhandle Division to reach B&O mainline coming from Harmony via Schenley Tunnel to reach Drummler Yard.
PAT's early Board of Directors used Mr. Ramsey to help create by using its Mansfield Trolley Barn area on Mansfield Avenue helped Gould's sneak in the Pittsburgh & Wabash Terminal Railroad on the Pittsburgh & West Virginia RR. They hid from the PRR the true ownership of Pittsburgh & Wabash RR until PRR realized what was going on and PRR then took trains off Liberty Avenue and moved them over to Fort Duquesne Blvd. to prevent Gould's from accessing the Allegheny Valley Railroad.
PAT's Board of Directors did all they could from the e1950's to destroy trolley lines and railroads here in southwestern, northwestern, northcentral and south central Pennsylvania and its well documented.
On PA 51 Crescent loop at power station appears to be the Allegheny/Beaver County line as PAT operated 21A Coraopolis to Alliquippa then intertwined operations with past 16A/ 18A Alliquippa back to City years ago. With the needless death to Steel Mills sold to idiots oversees LTV past J&L Steel shut down having PAT cut Alliquippa out of its serving area making us today be forced to use Beaver Count y Transit Route 2 to Ambridge PNR to get PAT's 14 Ohio Valley today to get to Allegheny Station at Heinz Field to get LRV out to Gateway, Wood Street Steel Plaza onto the Pittsburgh & Steubenville RR's Panhandle, Chartiers and Mon Division to drop down to Station Square to reach the South Hills Junction to use Pittsburgh & Southern RR, Pittsburgh & Castle Shannon RR to reach Library and South Hills Village today.
Coach USA is in Bankruptcy as Greyhound/ Link Bus planning to close all its Stations as PRR created GL of PA as GL is no longer owned here in USA as do to both issues motor coach services are horrible to even get buses to get anywhere, as in August 2024 ongoing drivers for GL are here in Pittsburgh are having to cancel trips do to lack of drivers to pull trips from Saint Louis MO and other horrible issues we passengers are dealing with. GL is to lose stations as new owners has fired Restaurant workers and restrooms are not clean and stations are filthy even here in Pittsburgh at our newer Station here.
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3 Towers are air vents for Liberty tunnels which the Pittsburgh & Castle Shannon RR helped built using its now PAT now PRT Blue and Silver line as much of the material P&CS RR dug out was taken up to Park in Belair on top of hill. Add P&CS RR also helped build the Pittsburgh Railways, PAT now PRT Transit tunnel.
Wow....I want whatever you're taking. A little too upbeat for me at 9am.
I lived on the street behind the brentwood loop. W. Bellecrest Avenue. Now it's a bus turnaround with a financial business.
Its strange to say but parts of Library that is within Allegheny County is to be serviced by PAT now PRT, but is fully isolated by PAT now PRT as MMVTA is serving it.
Historically the Pittsburgh & Castle Shannon RR operated the Castle Shannon Railroad from Station Square up part way then used roads/ streets to reach the upper station at Arlington Avenue as PAT operated then and now the Overbrook Line cutting off the horseshoe bend in South Hills Junction as part of the horseshoe is where closed off and used steps and transformers are out to where newer bridges bring Blue and Silver lines onto the Pittsburgh & Castle Shannon RR out to Glenbury where P&CS RR was cut ott as LRV's are now along the hillside to have line service Willow Station at Overbrook Junction where Pittsburgh Railways had a trolley barn there.
At Overbrook Junction past Pittsburgh Railways line used cut Pittsburgh & Southern Railroad to reach between Washington Junction, Overbrook Junction and South Hills Village as PAT's early predecessors created a blood bath railroad war over track gauge issues which caused loss of lives as the cut Pittsburgh and Southern RR had a line crossing U.S. 19 down to Banksville Road Park to connect to the Little Saw Mill Run RR that that video can be found in RUclips.
It's Smithfield Street, not Avenue. I visited Pittsburgh many times, for two weeks at a time, filming the street car lines on color movie film. I recorded many sad last rides as well as the lines in general. I started filming in the 1960s. I'm 79 years old now. And sadly a home-bound,.quite ill invalid now.
By the way, the PCC cars are now running on Rt. 15 Girard Avenue in Philadelphia. Trolleys are now running again to the rebuilt Westmoreland Loop on Richmond Street after 13 years !!
Do you have any of the recordings of this? I would love to see the trolley running through Greenfield. That is very cool that you documented this.
The open lot where hotel is located today between Liberty Avenue, Penn Avenue, 10th Street and 11th Street was location for offices for the Pittsburgh & Fort Wayne Railroad as where Greyhound is today where PRR built the Greyhound Lines of Pennsylvania Station has buses using its bays on Canal Basin on Spring Way. PA Western Division of PA Canal also had a Canal Basin at PNC Park past Westinghouse location in Allegheny City now North Side.
Library line was cut back from serving areas south along PA 837/ PA 88 south as far as Elco. Plans were to connect to West Penn Railways but never happened. Adding line was pulled back to Drake as trestle lover McMurray Road down to Washington PA was cut. PAT, Allegheny Conference and rest of Board of directors did and still is doing everything to destroy mass transit within Allegheny, Lawrence, Butler, Armstrong, Cambria, Somerset, Westmoreland, Fayette and Washington Counties out into our 8 state areas.
No the loop named West Library is not Simmons loop as West Library loop was used to shorten trips by Pittsburgh Railways not to go to Mon Valley. Simmons loops was always located where the VFW Memorial was at now the location for where LRV's are now looping just within Allegheny County from the Washington County line. Adding to make matters worse Monongahela City is within Allegheny County PAT now PRT should be serving that area not MMVTA. For those of you who disagree with me keep in mind historical marker states Mon. City is within Allegheny County. Simmons Loop is indeed at past Consol mines which is now Apartments next to where Montour Trail is today.
Pittsburgh Railways maybe PAT had served end/start trolleys on AMTRAK property off Liberty Avenue as trolleys looped on AMTRAK parking lot property. B&O had passenger stations on along inbound side of Smithfield Street bridge now on outbound Parkway East then last at 1st Avenue Station at Grant Street where PNC moved its check cashing center too that line passes jail out under PRR's Panhandle Division to reach B&O mainline coming from Harmony via Schenley Tunnel to reach Drummler Yard.
PAT's early Board of Directors used Mr. Ramsey to help create by using its Mansfield Trolley Barn area on Mansfield Avenue helped Gould's sneak in the Pittsburgh & Wabash Terminal Railroad on the Pittsburgh & West Virginia RR. They hid from the PRR the true ownership of Pittsburgh & Wabash RR until PRR realized what was going on and PRR then took trains off Liberty Avenue and moved them over to Fort Duquesne Blvd. to prevent Gould's from accessing the Allegheny Valley Railroad.
PAT's Board of Directors did all they could from the e1950's to destroy trolley lines and railroads here in southwestern, northwestern, northcentral and south central Pennsylvania and its well documented.
On PA 51 Crescent loop at power station appears to be the Allegheny/Beaver County line as PAT operated 21A Coraopolis to Alliquippa then intertwined operations with past 16A/ 18A Alliquippa back to City years ago. With the needless death to Steel Mills sold to idiots oversees LTV past J&L Steel shut down having PAT cut Alliquippa out of its serving area making us today be forced to use Beaver Count y Transit Route 2 to Ambridge PNR to get PAT's 14 Ohio Valley today to get to Allegheny Station at Heinz Field to get LRV out to Gateway, Wood Street Steel Plaza onto the Pittsburgh & Steubenville RR's Panhandle, Chartiers and Mon Division to drop down to Station Square to reach the South Hills Junction to use Pittsburgh & Southern RR, Pittsburgh & Castle Shannon RR to reach Library and South Hills Village today.
Coach USA is in Bankruptcy as Greyhound/ Link Bus planning to close all its Stations as PRR created GL of PA as GL is no longer owned here in USA as do to both issues motor coach services are horrible to even get buses to get anywhere, as in August 2024 ongoing drivers for GL are here in Pittsburgh are having to cancel trips do to lack of drivers to pull trips from Saint Louis MO and other horrible issues we passengers are dealing with. GL is to lose stations as new owners has fired Restaurant workers and restrooms are not clean and stations are filthy even here in Pittsburgh at our newer Station here.
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18 cars are being rebuilt. So far, 8 are done.