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Fifth Avenue Loop

1935/1980

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Fifth Avenue Loop
  • Title
  • Fifth Avenue Loop
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B032.F28.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B032.F28.I01
  • Description
  • A cable car completes the loop at Fifth and Liberty Avenues in downtown Pittsburgh on its one-hour return trip to the city’s East Liberty neighborhood. The track crossing the loop was used by West End horse cars. According to the pamphlet, “Pennsylvania Trolley Museum,“ horse-drawn street railways began in 1859 when the Citizens Passenger Railway started to operate on Penn Avenue to 34th Street, later extending to East Liberty, a trip lasting one and a half hours and costing sixty cents. The East End lines were replaced eventually by cable cars. In the late 1880s Citizens Traction Company operated a cable car line along Penn Avenue, with a branch line on Butler Street to 40th Street in Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville neighborhood.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Fifth Avenue (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Liberty Avenue (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Street-railroads--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Pittsburgh Traction Company.
    Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
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