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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>TIMEPOINTS VOL 17 NO
4<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>APRIL, 1959</p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>THE SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA TRACTION REVIEW</p>
<p class=MsoNormal<![if !supportEmptyParas] <![endif]<o:p</o:p</p>
<p class=MsoNormal<![if !supportEmptyParas] <![endif]<o:p</o:p</p>
<p class=MsoNormal<span style='mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt'>Feature Article:<o:p</o:p</span</p>
<h1<span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt'>PITTSBURGH
RAILWAYS REVIEW-<o:p</o:p</span</h1>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in'>In these days
of the bus reign in local transit;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>the
mention of streetcars is very rare, but rarer yet is a system in which streetcars
predominate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This system, of course,
is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>the last of the U.S. streetcar
giants, the Pittsburgh Railways. </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in'>In the
following paragraphs we will condense the pertinent data which appears in the
just-released 1958 Annual Report of Prys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Notice carefully the wording of the statements and the amazing
equipment, line and traffic statistics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>This report could well have been written during the 1940's or 1930's.
Even as the PCC empire crumbles, a lot remains (as is shown in the statistics).</p>
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<h2<span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Pittsburgh
Railways Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - 1958 Annual Report <o:p</o:p</span</h2>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in'<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"</span>“The redevelopment in the City of Duquesne to
eliminate a blighted area and the reconstruction of certain highways are
referred to in that Report necessitated the conversion of the Duquesne-McKeesport
street railway route, extending from Downtown Pittsburgh through the City of
Duquesne and into the business district of the city of McKeesport, to bus
operation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>By reason of certain street
improvements planned by the City of Pittsburgh, this route together with a
shorter street railway route between East Liberty and Munhall utilizing some of
the same streets in the City of Pittsburgh as the Duquesne-McKeesport street
railway route were converted from street railway to bus operation.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Bus operation on these routes commenced on
September 21, 1958.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In connection with
the discontinuance of street car operation on these two routes, 34 street cars
were retired from service.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in'>“A plan of
Allegheny County to rebuild a bridge crossing the Allegheny River,<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>presently occupied by street railway tracks,
required the Company to either spend a considerable sum to build street railway
tracks on the new bridge or convert the street railway route to bus
operation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Under the auspices of
Allegheny County, the two boroughs and one township, on whose streets the
street railway tracks would no longer by useful in case of abandonment, agreed
to permit the Company to abandon the tracks in place, which made it feasible
for the Company to convert the street railway route affected to bus
operation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The Pennsylvania Public
Utility Commission has approved the conversion of the street railway
facilities, but does not require actual conversion until December 31, 1960. </p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in'>“In each of the
Annual Reports for 1955 and 1956 reference was made to certain litigation in
which the Company was contesting a decision of the Pennsylvania Public
Utilities Commission permitting the construction of a new Fort Pitt Bridge in
Pittsburgh without making provision for street railway tracks, which litigation
was decided adversely to the Company. The new bridge will eventually replace
the present Point Bridge on which the street railway tracks provide the only
access for streetcars to Downtown Pittsburgh from a portion of the System
serving an area of approximately 100,000 inhabitants and known as the West End
System.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>During 1958 the Pennsylvania
Department of Highways had under consideration the construction of certain
approaches to the Fort Pitt Bridge from the Downtown portion of the City of
Pittsburgh, which approaches, together with the connection approaches to a
proposed new Fort Duquesne Bridge would cross the street railway tracks serving
the West End System.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Under date of
December 29, 1958 the Pennsylvania Department of Highways agreed with the
Company to pay to the Company $300,000 in cash and to take over the street
railway tracks in the West End System which are on State highways and to
relieve the Company from any removal responsibility, conditioned upon the
Company converting the six street railway routes in the West End System to bus
operation, and upon each of the City of Pittsburgh, the Country of Allegheny,
and seven other local municipal governments relieving the Company from track
removal responsibility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>There are </p>
<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent<span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt'>approximately 34 miles of paved track in streets in the West End
System, of which approximately 15 miles are covered by the agreement with the
State Department of Highways, and approximately 12 miles are on streets of the
City of Pittsburgh and other municipalities which so far have authorized the
agreement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The conversion from street
railway to bus operation will also require approval by the Pennsylvania<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Public Utilities Commission.”<o:p</o:p</span</p>
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<h2<span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>SUMMARY OF
EQUIPMENT AND SERVICE STATISTICS-</span</h2>
<p class=MsoNormal>Pittsburgh Railways-1951-1958<u<o:p</o:p</u</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>1958</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Miles of 1st Main Track</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>215.05</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>223.89</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>226.67</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>227.80</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Miles of Single Track</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>398.97</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>417.51</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>426.41</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>426.60</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Miles of Bus Routes</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>269.10</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>244.89</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>233.72</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>237.06</p>
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