Jerry’s Railroad Photo Archive – Pgh style

I miss those things.

In RE: The Flying Fraction…My elder brother is a Pittsburgh Trolley Fanatic. I asked him to answer the Flying Fraction question:
The "Flying Fraction" as the 77/54 was called, ran from the Brentwood loop
in Bentwood just outside the City limits, all the way down Brownsville Road
to South 18th street in Mt.Oliver, down south 18th street to East Carson
Street on da Sout' Side where it turned right, ran across East Carson
Street to Brady Street just beyond 22nd Street where it turned left and
travelled across the Brady Street Bridge to Forbes Avenue, where it turned
right and followed Forbes past the Craft Avenue carhouse, past Forbes Field
and the Carnegie library in Oakland, (where I boarded it), turned left on
Craig, ran up Craig across Highland and past St. Paul's cathedral, to
Centre Avenue, where it turned right, ran down Centre Avenue to Millville
Ave. It turned left on Millvale Avenue and ran along Millville to Liberty
Avenue, where it turned left on Liberty Avenue, ran across Liberty Avenue
and continued straight ahead on Main Street where Liberty Avenue (and the
#87 Ardmore car line) veered left (you recall that spot, I'm sure), across
Main the short distance to Penn Avenue, then left on Penn Avenue and down
Penn Avenue to the point where Butler Street began (or ended) (and where I
disembarked to transfer to the #94 Sharpsburg car) thence down Penn Avenue
almost into downtown, but turning right at 16th street to cross the 16th
street bridge into the North Side, turning left on East Ohio Street, and
then across East Ohio to, I believe, Federal Street, where it turned left
and ran toward downtown and the 6th street bridge, but turning left just
short of that on, I believe, Reedsdale and over Reedsdale to 7th street
where it turned right again on 7th, and then right on Robinson over which
it ran back to 6th street where it turned right and headed north back to
Federal Street and repeating the same route back to Carrick and Brentwood.