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Excellent! Very nice to hear this history from someone who was there!

A fantastic time was had at PTM. Happy New Year to you all as welll

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.

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.

Any railroad in Pennsylvania area that didn't carry PRR's name to them were working against PRR and Pennsylvania Democrats greedy ways and their attack on buying stalk of the New York States West Shore RR which PRR and PA Democrats were attacking Thaddeous Stevens, Ahl's Brothers and Vanderbilt's which PRR and PA Democrats created a mess that had William Vanderbilt and his friendly lines of the Western Maryland RR/ Railway, B&O Shannondoah and other Alphabet lines had been working against PRR's lines. 2. At Shannondoah Junction west of Harpers Ferry VA now WV with its B&O Yard in Martinsburg WV had a B&O cut wye up to Hagarstown MD as B&O first built the line to Paw Paw VA now WV as it appears that when B&O cut its Cacapon Valley stops to Paw Paw WV had B&O cut few stations including its wye to the Shannondoah Valley as Cacapon Valley follows crossing U.S. 522 crossing and following WV 9 that now uses the Western Maryland Railroad/ Railway to reach Cumberland MD Yard to have Great Allegheny Passage past WM to meet Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad at Connellsville Fayette County which Fayette Area Coordinated Transportation uses today as Westmoreland Transit 4, 8 or 16 meet FACT at Country Side Plaza today or we can take Mid Mon Valley along the past Elco Charlori line to Brownsville Wal Mart to meet FACT to Uniontown Hub on WS of EB U.S. 40 M-F to reach Uniontown Hub even and eat lunch at the Doggery to get Connellsville line from where the B&O once serviced. Many tricks are needed to properly use MMVTA Commuter A, Valley 2 to reach proper connections to FACT to reach Uniontown to make properly make connections to Connellsville. I'd suggest taking WCTA to reach Bell Way Greensburg to get WCTA 8 or 16 to Wal Mart in Mount Pleasant to get FACT to Connellsville to continue down to Uniontown to get MMVTA Valley 2 to Charlori to get Commuter A back to Pittsburgh. If your getting off at Plaza walk across U.S. 119 to walk to Great Allegheny Passage then get food drinks at Giant Stores Martin's at MP 58 of GAP Campsite then even eat at Diary Diner as your on P&LE Station Property where P&LE interlocked with WM. So much hidden railroad and trolley history in all these areas that is not being mentioned in these videos. James Love 7579105198.

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.

The tracks shown with hotel and Greyhound was the Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne Railroad that helped bring in the PA Canal from Johnstown as PA Canal basins at PNC Park, merged with the pairs for the Pittsburgh & Fort Wayne to merge along the Allegheny River up along Old PA 28 to Canal Street in Sharpsburg where Canal pulled left to cross Main & Canal cutting off Sharpsburg in tow too pull right under off ramp for Highland Park Bridge following Western PA RR onto the PRR's Conemaugh Division to pass Harmarville to reach Butler Junction then crossed the Allegheny River too reach Schenley PA out to meet Plane 1 at Johnstown for meeting the Allegheny Portage Railroad 2. PAT deliberately negligently planned to tear out now to tear out passenger and fright trains when they wrongly tore out tracks to build stage 1 & 2 for East Bus Way after Edgewood/ Swissvale stated now to bus ways. Making when Swissvale stated to PAT to build busway to past Hawkins Station Edgewood bucked and stated NO as out of PAT and Board of Directors stating they couldn't get there way this is why historic Edgewood Station was bypassed. 3. PRR had 7 Divisions in Pittsburg now Pittsburgh as its Conemaugh and Allegheny Valley Divisions were hosted by 45 mile Eastern Division that took the wye to the left of the Pittsburgh Railways East Liberty Garage for AVRR to reach Allegheny River Blvd. to reach Kiskiminetas Junction Yard that crossed the Conemaugh Division to reach Blairsville where PAT cut connections between IndiGo Bus & Westmoreland Transit cutting service back to have PAT cut Holiday Park, Vandergrift, Appollo and North Appollo that once was West Penn Power as PAT gave most of 5 series to Westmoreland Transit to where today Westmoreland Transit clearly refuses to properly service connections to Cambria City/Rural, AMTRAN Altoona, Westmoreland, Armstrong and Butler Counties to properly service the Regions.

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.

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.

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.

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 UA-cam.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

So nice, Thank you 😊

Nice but why can't our local leaders present this.

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Can you do Chambersburg, Pa. ?

Does this mean that the streetcars will be solar powered?

I may have the solution. If you look at San Francisco they have platforms that go from a station to the car via a ramp. Clear out all the junk in the vestibule and re configure the doors to operate like the new cars. Of course that would mean moving the stops to the middle between Howard Ave and the end of the line and I am sure the folks that love and live on the avenue would scream "you can't build these ugly ramps it destroys the look of St. Charles." There is NO good answer. Relocating the rails for 14 miles would be way too costly to widen the tracks would allow for boarding in the middle. OK lets do the same thing in San Francisco, make the cable cars ADA accessible? Never happen.

Wow....I want whatever you're taking. A little too upbeat for me at 9am.

Really enjoyed the presentation... however! It was really disappointing to see this group of people kind of trashing ADA requirements, or talking about the limited number of people that ride the system that actually need it. Can you blame them? Earl mentioned that 30 minute service basically did not count as service, and these ADA-accessible cars run every 45 minutes per his comments. It may be a small percentage of ridership, but if you need ADA accessbility, your experience isn't diminished: it's completely eliminated. ADA compliance helps older people (like just about everyone attending the Zoom event), people with strollers or just reduced mobility, as well as people who are disabled. Imagine being told "hey, sorry, I know you literally can't participate in this thing at all that is enjoyable to millions worldwide, but... sorry, we prefer things to stay the way they are." I think too many people grew up in an era where it was broadly accepted that equity was somehting that's too expensive/not worth spending money on. The /real/ problem is that ADA compliance mandates are not well-funded. It's embarassing that this country does not allocate the money required to do this work, and it's really surprising to me that in a meeting full of people, no one managed to point out that THAT is the problem, not the idea that a transit system should be required to serve everyone.

The audio did cut out frequently, but it seemed to pick up exactly where it stopped, so I don’t think anything was lost, except time.

The narrator has the "Question Mark Explanation Syndrome"

are the tracks stil there are you able to walk them?

Billions of dollars later: nobody wants to go downtown.

Seems logical to me that the name Heckler came from Henry Clay, HE - CLA. My grandmother grew up in Hecla so this is all very interesting.

Thank you to all of the volunteers! And now it is even a proven fact that volunteering improves your physical and mental health!

How much of the Laurel Line was damaged by Hurricane Dianne in 1955? I know the DL&W and Erie suffered from the flooding, especially the DL&W.

IS THE TERRIBLE TROLLEY UP AND RUNNING YET?

These are all places to jog now.

Thank you, PTM for the opportunity to prepare and present on this topic as part of your educational programs!

I grew up in Shaker up the street from the Green Road Rapid. The Rapid opened the world to us as kids to safely go from the suburbs to downtown. I can still taste the French fries at the Shaker Square Rapid stop.

My son is special needs and he really likes antique streetcars 🚊🚋 he thinks they are highly underrated forms of public transportation and all should be preserved, restored, and put back into service carrying passengers in city streets just like they use to!

Can’t wait!

So cool. And showing how streetcars, and rail in general, is effective and efficient and fun.

I lived on the street behind the brentwood loop. W. Bellecrest Avenue. Now it's a bus turnaround with a financial business.

Old routes before and after

Thanks Phil for your transportation knowledge!! Wow - that Bellevue House!

Beautiful looking intro! It would be good to promote that PCC trolley's were not slow. Some section of the track should allow them to go full out zippy! The Washington DC's, Georgetown Glen Echo trolley route 20, a PCC streetcar on its on right-of-way, would hit about 60 mph.

I love it! It was fascinating watching this video from a poles-eye view. Seeing the view of the wire and the pole as it goes through the various parts of it while moving from side to side during turns and especially as it goes through all of the frogs without missing a beat, was really special. That could never be duplicated with pantographs, it is only a unique part of trolley car lore. I also liked how we could see the coming tracks and know that there will be frogs that the pole will pass through. However, we didn't get to see the actual car that the pole was on, but it looked like the pole had the springs which remain horizontal when the pole is raised. Maybe next time, you can place the camera in front of the pole looking up so that we see the trolley wheel or shoe actually in contact with the wire as it goes along and passing through the frogs, etc. Thanks for a great video.

Tom, excellent presentation I am very intetested in interurban power generation My great grand father was a stationary engimeer, and worked at the power house in medway Ohio. I am interested in your substation pictures. I know the substation in arcanum, Ohio.

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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 !!

This is so fantastic! I wish you would do several open lectures on this here in Cincinnati. Too much to take in all in one sitting.

Me gustaría saber si puede existir alguna información sobre el constructor de coches del 1er tranvía español puesto en servicio entre Carcagente a Gandía en 1864, muy cerca de mí

John Engleman actually was a motorman for the Philadelphia streetcar system.

My God, these were private companies. Yes if they needed equipment they would rent it out . The whole idea was to make money.