Posted by jimbo
on 3/5/2009, 11:55 pm, in reply to "AVR/ CARNEGIE MELLON"
I am suprised they haven't switched over already. I read this article in the Pittsburgh Business Times...
http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2008/02/18/focus5.html
They are smart guys there I would have thought they would have seen this coming...but then they have been a little too trusting with their money lately...how many carloads a month they do? where do the unload? have to get some pics of that before its gone. I wonder if this has anything to do with Peduto's wacky (to me) idea of running a passenger line between there and Lawrenceville? Here's a fairly interesting link from the "green" side about proposed rail lines in the burgh...
http://thegreenagenda.blogspot.com/2008/12/concilman-peduto-wants-city-of.html
His idea might be useful if he can hook it to the T somehow. As a long time south hills resident who is old enough to have actually ridden daily on a PCC trolley, I have seen that rail can work. Pittsburgh's problem is we build stupid. I will never understand the need for a T extension across the river. As Peduto does point out it would be cheaper to run some cool GP-9's...
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: ANOTHER RAIL HAUL DOWN THE TUBE AND
: A LITTLE LESS COAL MINED.
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