A few CVRR pictures and some other related pictures....

[Rufus T. Firefly]

At the Fireman's Convention in Zelienople, Pa in 1914............

Look at that brick paved road!

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Zelienople, somehow, a name familiar to me, one often mentioned in McKeesport, PA, as I recall from childhood. Yes, that brick road is classic for a lot of western PA, from my experience.

Here's are a couple-three of them in my hometown area.

P.S. Thanks for being so gracious about the thread-drift I indulged in concerning horses and wagons. That was nice of you. I'd have removed all of it if you had taken exception, of course. But Thanks, Rufus, for the patience and conviviality.
daMurph

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Zelienople, somehow, a name familiar to me, one often mentioned in McKeesport, PA, as I recall from childhood.

About hour North of McKeesport, PA.......

P.S. Thanks for being so gracious about the thread-drift I indulged in concerning horses and wagons. That was nice of you. I'd have removed all of it if you had taken exception, of course. But Thanks, Rufus, for the patience and conviviality.
daMurph

Not a problem and within subject range -- we can learn a lot about much that is depicted in these old RPPC's. They do succeed in capturing a segment or thread of the past.

[Mitch]

The front wheels ain't even on the track! How's that come about? Looks like the back might still be on, and it's coupled to the overhead electric, but what gives? All those guys on the right are lookin' down like somethin' bad happened.

[healey36]

Mitch - I think one of these guys just shoved Vinny under the trolley:



The motorman looks like nothing happened...

Healey

[rogruth]

The smaller photo posted above by Murph says that the trolley is turning around at Pirl Street.
How did they do that? Small turntable between the tracks or attached to the car?????

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The smaller photo posted above by Murph says that the trolley is turning around at Pirl Street.
How did they do that? Small turntable between the tracks or attached to the car?????

Probably just looped around the block is what I'd think.

[rogruth]

The smaller photo posted above by Murph says that the trolley is turning around at Pirl Street.
How did they do that? Small turntable between the tracks or attached to the car?????

Probably just looped around the block is what I'd think.

Makes sense.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

The smaller photo posted above by Murph says that the trolley is turning around at Pirl Street.
How did they do that? Small turntable between the tracks or attached to the car?????

Probably just looped around the block is what I'd think.

Makes sense.

Yes, that is what they did, traveling around the loop which was in that lot you can see it headed into, there,and coming out a little bit further back down that street. The loop was near my aunt's house, when I was a boy, but disappeared when the trolleys did, of course. I don't recall a switch being there, though, to receive and redirect the looping trolley back down the same track, just a loop in that lot that accommodated the trolleys one-up-the-street and one-back-down-the-street in the opposite direction. Two tracks in the street, where trolleys traveled in opposite directions. You boarded a trolley to take you shopping or to the steelmill for work, and then, at the opposite curb across the street, you returned home later.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

[rogruth]

Murph,
In the picture by the mill, are those the PCC type cars?
I don't think there were any PCC cars in the Wheeling area,
at least not on the Ohio side of the river. I don't recall them
in the Steubenville area either.
I did make some trips to outlying towns that I can't name
near Pittsburgh where my uncle had relatives. I remember
two trolley tracks and fast moving trolleys. Maybe even
different types of trolleys. I had fun watching. There was
a stop there but not all stopped so got to see them move.
That was also not in the highway.

[rogruth]

Murph,
Your analysis of the derailed car also looks right to me.
A couple of officers of some type looking it over.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Murph,
In the picture by the mill, are those the PCC type cars?
... I remember two trolley tracks and fast moving trolleys. ..

Yes, I believe that is what they were known as because they were fast traveling , with a seated motorman. They were comfortable and quiet, at least when compared to their predecessors, the ones with the horizontal narrow iron bars at the bottom 1/3 (approx.) of each window. They had comfortable black plastic (?) elbow-rests for your arm as you sat alongside the wondows, which seemed very modern and cool to us kids (and to our parents, too).

PCC = Presidents' Conference Committee

[J. S. Bach]

At the Fireman's Convention in Zelienople, Pa in 1914............Look at that brick paved road!

Not to mention the horse droppings all over the nice brick paving.