Because old Pa Pitt keeps a collection of Buses Coming Toward You, here is a 61A on Forbes Avenue. Below, three buses: the 61A and a similar bus behind it, along with a school bus parked in the bike lane.
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Bus Coming Toward You
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Negley Station on the East Busway
The Negley Station is an easy walk from both the Ellsworth Avenue and Walnut Street business districts in Shadyside, as well as businesses on Centre Avenue and Baum Boulevard. Like most busway stations in Pittsburgh, it is a direct replacement for an old commuter-rail station: in this case, the Roup station that used to be at exactly the same place. (South Negley Avenue was part of Roup Street until the 1890s, and rail stations tend to keep their names even when the street for which they are named changes.)
Commuters gather on the inbound platform in late morning rush hour.
And here come the buses.
Canon PowerShot SX20 IS; Sony Alpha 3000 with 7Artisans f/1.4 35mm lens. The outbound platform in evening sunlight.
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Sunshine at Steel Plaza
Fujifilm FinePix HS10. Sunlight pours into the long passageway that connects the Steel Plaza subway station to Grant Street.
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South Hills Junction Station
Ordinary materials are given a touch of postmodern whimsy to make a station that is entertaining to look at if, for example, you happen to be stuck on the platform for an hour waiting for a construction shuttle on the Red Line.
Fujifilm FinePix HS20EXR.
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The New Odd Fellows Livery for Trolleys
For two decades Pittsburgh streetcars have worn their checkerboard coats, a design old Pa Pitt must confess he never really liked very much. A whole generation has grown from infancy to adulthood since the last time that livery was changed. Here comes a two-car train into Potomac station in Dormont, and the first car is still wearing its old Port Authority suit. But the second—
—is dressed in the new Pittsburgh Regional Transit livery, which Father Pitt thinks is an improvement.
Kodak EasyShare Max Z990. He cannot stop himself from thinking of it as the Odd Fellows livery, since the three links have been the Odd Fellows’ emblem since the sixth day of creation. But we could do worse than to have Odd Fellows rolling down our streetcar tracks.
The three links on the Odd Fellows lodge in Hazelwood…
…and on the Odd Fellows Hall in the West End.
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Gateway Station
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A Broad View of Steel Plaza
An “ultra-wide” view of a Red Line car coming into Steel Plaza station, thanks to the five-megapixel “ultra-wide” auxiliary camera on Father Pitt’s phone.
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Entrance to the Steel Plaza Subway Station
Kodak EasyShare Max Z990. The Grant Street entrance to Steel Plaza station: a study in angles.
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Streetcars in Allentown
All summer long, all the rail routes have been detoured through Allentown. Stop and consider for a moment how thoroughly odd Pittsburgh transit is: do you know of any other subway system that keeps up an alternate route over the top for times when one of the tunnels has to be closed?
The few riders who look up from their phone screens have a chance to notice that Allentown is changing. Over the past few years, the Warrington Avenue business district has been going through a rapid trendification. It’s full of weird little shops too low-budget for the high rents of Lawrenceville.
A bonus bus coming toward you, for the longtime fans.
While the trolleys are going over the top, they stop at Allen Street in the middle of the Allentown business district.
Many people in Allentown would like to have their Allentown Trolley back permanently. They have been enjoying their summer of streetcars.
Nikon COOLPIX P100; Kodak EasyShare Z981.
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Gateway Station
