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Pittsburgh's Penn Station was designed by the famed Daniel Burnham! Yup, the name Union Station is a misnomer since it was only served by the Pennsylvania RR as other railroads used other stations like Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Station. For the Pittsburgh area's streetcar history, it's also worth mentioning that the iconic PBS show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was recorded in Pittsburgh and famously features a little trolley that goes to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Living along the Metro-North's Hudson Line as a kid was what got me into trains, but Mister Rogers got me into the concept of trolleys/streetcars and mixed-use walkable transit-oriented communities with their models. The trolley on the show was hand-built from wood by a Toronto man named Bill Ferguson in 1967, the year before Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood premiered. During one 1984 episode of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, he visited the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum and remembered accompanying his dad on long trolley trips. Fred Rogers was originally from Latrobe which is outside Pittsburgh, known to be the place where the banana split was created! Viewers wrote to Rogers about why there were no people aboard the trolley, to which he responded that the lack of passengers encouraged kids at home to visualize themselves aboard. Rogers was a big fan of trains, and one day when it was a rainy day in NYC and he opted to take the subway instead of taking a taxi, the train was crowded in schoolchildren. But instead of them asking for his autograph, they sang his theme song in unison, turning the train into a choir (in a movie about Fred with Tom Hanks, they changed it to adults singing). Fred Rogers was an incredible person. He made the US government realize the importance of public educational broadcasting. LBJ introduced 20 million funding for PBS before he left office, but Nixon wanted to slash it to 10 million. If it wasn't for Fred and his powerful speech when he testified to the Senate in 1969, PBS wouldn't have been able to secure the funding it needed from the government. Fred saved PBS in 1969 by reading a children's song to a senator. His speech was so powerful, it brought Senator John Pastore of Rhode Island (who chaired the Subcommittee on Communications) to tears. The senator went from mocking him to practically holding back tears.

"Yinz really wanted me to come to Pittsburgh..." PERFECT!!! 😁😁😁

The PRT still maintains the Brown Line for use when the Mt. Washington tunnel is closed. It closed because of low ridership and the large grades meant the electric grid struggled with multiple trains on the line. I hope they do bring it back, since I think people will still ride it, and they’re spending the money to maintain it, so they might as we’ll make some money from the line. Classy Whale has a video where he rides the line during a reroute, which I recommend. Also, for more history on the light rail map, plus a bunch of other North American cities, I would recommend Vanishing Underground.

The colors of the Pirates, Penguins, and Steelers are black and Aztec gold to reflect Pittsburgh's flag and coat of arms, in turn based on based on the arms of William Pitt, the first Earl of Chatham. Same reason why the bridges are gold! The mural at 5:47 in Gateway station is called Pittsburgh Recollections by artist Romare Bearden, made of 780 tiles made by Bennington Potters of Vermont. Not only does it showcase historic scenes of Pittsburgh, from the French and Indian War, riverboats, and a banjo that accompanied songs by Stephen Foster (the father of American music; who wrote pieces like Oh Susanna, Camptown Races, and My Old Kentucky Home) but also Romare's personal memories of summers spent in the city at his grandparents’ boarding house. Bearden made the mural on a $90,000 budget and painted each of the stoneware tiles himself. When the station was rebuilt, the original mural had one tile which had accidentally been placed upside-down, and the reinstallation of the mural faithfully reproduced this error. Pittsburgh currently has three busways, not two! Besides the South Busway, there's the Martin Luther King Jr. East Busway and the West Busway! The Martin Luther King Jr. East Busway serves Pittsburgh's eastern neighborhoods and suburbs. Originally a Pennsylvania Railroad line, planning for the East Busway began shortly after the Port Authority of Allegheny County purchased the Pittsburgh Railways Company in 1964. The original segment of the busway opened in February 1983, running between Downtown Pittsburgh and Edgewood, a length of 6.8 miles, and expanded to 9.1 miles in 2002! The West Busway serves western neighborhoods and suburbs, running for 5.1 miles/8.2 km from the southern shore of the Ohio River near downtown to Carnegie, following the former Panhandle Route (called such because it served WV's northern panhandle) railroad ROW. In addition to running along the abandoned railroad right of way, the West Busway also reuses the historic Cork Run Tunnel, which opened in 1865 on the original Pittsburgh and Steubenville Railroad. The Airport Flyer bus uses the West Busway as far south as Bell Station where dedicated ramps connect the Busway to Interstate 376. The Airport Flyer has a stop restriction with buses outbound to the Airport only stopping to pick up passengers, with drop-offs along the busway prohibited. And the South Busway runs for 4.3 miles/6.9 km from the Mt. Washington Transit Tunnel across the Monongahela River from Downtown Pittsburgh to the Overbrook neighborhood.

Pittsburgh local here- It’s great that the T exists at all, but it badly needs to be extended. Specifically if it connected to the Strip District, and had an East/West connection through the Universities and into Shadyside/Squirrel Hill, it could be a real winner.

One of the few benefits of getting old(er) is having been able to see and do things long gone. In the early Spring of 1970, when I was 12, I went on a trip with the Akron Railroad Club to Pittsburgh, in the company of a relative who indulged my obsession with trains, to ride all SIX remaining streetcar lines, because they were planning on abandoning three of them. We took advantage of a change in B&O/C&O passenger service that truncated the former "Diplomat" day train from Washington to Chicago at Akron, turning the equipment there for an early morning departure to DC, and an approximately three-hour trip to Pittsburgh, using the P&LE station (now Station Square). I think we rode all six lines, at least the ones that were going to be abandoned, including what is now probably the sometimes used Brown Line, which was much longer back then. I know we rode both lines going to the far South end. I remember a frustrated operator having to stop a couple of times to try and find the owners of cars that were parked too close to the tracks to move them, having ice cream at an Isaly's ice cream parlor (there was one in Akron as well), riding one of the inclines, and going to the B&O Grant St. station and seeing the RDCs on weekend layover, the first time I ever saw one in person. The B&O service from DC to Akron was not much of a train - two, maybe three cars - but one of them was a coach/cafe counter car, which was a novelty to me. Little did I know that 15 years later I'd end up working Amcafes in the Northeast corridor for over a decade. That B&O train lasted less than a year, ending well before the final discontinuance of all B&O passenger service with the start of Amtrak.

Great presentation on a very interesting system! Your discovery of the Potomac Station restaurant was a delightful bit of serendipity! At one time, Pittsburgh had a large commuter rail network, operated by both the Pennsylvania and B & O railroads. That's all gone now, blamed on the decline of the steel industry. I don't know if the Pennsy commuter trains ever operated diesels--only seen pictures of steam. But I know the B & O operated rail diesel cars at the end. When I was there in 1965, there was still a train or two running in from Connellsville I believe. They operated the B & O station just for commuter trains. Through trains to Chicago stopped at the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie station which was across the Monongahela River from downtown, because B&O station was a stub-end terminal.

Its definitely a neat system, I just hope it can be expanded one day to really take advantage of the infrastructure and become a true network. Also Pittsburgh actually has 3 busways, though weirdly one directly parallels the Blue and Silver line, that being the South busway. But the other 2 also look decent. The MLK jr. East Busway especially could potentially be a good one to convert to Light rail in the long run, given that it also already has a downtown tunnel connection at Penn station.

We have been to Pittsburgh and never took the trains anywhere, we walked all over. Now I feel like I need to go back and ride these trains! Thanks for another fun vlog!

Wish they had rebranded as Pittsburgh Area Transit so they could keep using the PAT acronym a lot of locals used (Port Authority Transit)

Thanks for the shoutout at the beginning 😎 Wish you had taken a look at the outer end of the Silver Line, which as a traction buff still has a lot of early 1900s interurban infrastructure and is a fun ride! :)

I had two chances to ride the Brown Line when maintenance was happening in the Mt. Washington tunnel. The views of the city when coming down through the Southside Slopes towards the Mon are nothing short of stunning. It would be great if it were fully renewed!

Welp, since you made it to Pittsburgh, have you gotten a chance to ride my home rail system - the Cleveland RTA?

Love Pittsburgh. Great city, light rail is good but needs expanding.

So, it seems that one of the most noticable differences between North American LRT and German Stadtbahn is that most LRT systems have tunnel in their routes only when there had been an existing one before they built the system, while Stadtbahn systems build one if they did not get an existing one. Right? On the other hand, I had a very fun time when I visited Pittsburgh as a tourist and rode the system. But I felt sorry for students in University of Pittsburgh who cannot enjoy the benefit of the system on daily basis.

As a former Pittsburgher, I've always thought you would find the "T" interesting, I used to ride it into downtown and back almost every day. Glad to see you made it there to do a video and check it out!

I visited Pittsburgh in 2018 and loved it. I want to visit again sometime. I rode the trains in the downtown and was also impressed with those stations there. I wish they had an east-west line to supplement the system. I rode the Duquesne Incline as well. Very cool and I loved how you can watch the mechanical parts in action.

I hope you get back to Pittsburgh again and ride the Silver Line all the way to Library. Old school route with modern rolling stock!

As the freight train was shown at the end, I recalled that in 2018, a Norfolk Southern train derailed at Station Square causing damage to the light rail station below its tracks. I actually found folks to be nice the day and a half I spent in Pittsburgh. My son and I arrived and departed on Amtrak, and we rode buses, light rail, and both inclines.

Pittsburgh also had a short lived commuter rail line called PATrain which ran to the suburb of Versailles in the late 1970s through the 1980s that used the B&O right of way. PATrain was also supposed to take over another commuter rail line operated by the P&LE but P&LE decided to just end it’s commuter rail service and not hand it over to PATrain, so PATrain only ran the B&O line. Ridership was so low that PATrain ended all service in 1989. Those tracks are still used by Amtrak on the Capitol Limited

This is my original rail system! I used to live in Pittsburgh, and this is a staple of my nostalgia!

very nice video! the st. louis metrolink is a favorite transit system of mine, putting the pittsburgh light rail on my must-see transit list

Very cool to see these mid-western cities with technology that blends old and new infrastructure together... As an future video series, I'd love to see a tour of abandoned or unbuilt mid-western train systems like Cincinnati or Rochester which both have abandoned subway sections beneath their cities... Or cities that planned to build modern LRT but never did like Milwaukee, which I guess has a streetcar now but you know... Not the same thing! As a cool historic twist, Edmonton, my hometown, Go Oilers had drawn up extensive plans for a Skybus system using Pittsburgh's ill-fated technology but dropped it in favor of being the first North American city to revive modern Urban LRT Railway based on the Frankfurt U-Bahn and its Siemens-Duewag U2 cars... Which Calgary and San Diego then adopted shortly after...

It's almost like you saw me searching for your not-yet-existing Pittsburgh video last week after I discovered your channel! 😀

Wuz good to see both of yinz dann tan.

I have train station 2 and I love it it's really cool thank you for promoting something good

Gotta love Pittsburgh hospitality. I got screamed at by a customer because I as a manager told her to get off her phone in a movie theater

Really enjoyed seeing this awesome light rail system in action! Your research and information is greatly appreciated and awesome!!!

Pittsburgh has some really cool and weird transit

Pittsburgh is another destination on my list. Also mainly because of the transportation. I’m glad to know that the remaining tunnel with light rail and buses is located there. I’d like to ride them both when I can.

Hey Tom, great video on the Pittsburgh light rail system I cannot wait to see your video of the Duquesne incline. That is a spectacular incline. I use it quite frequently. It is certainly a great piece of Pittsburgh history and a well preserved peace of Pittsburgh history. The staff that worked that incline is absolutely amazing. The Monongahela incline has been plagued with both electrical and computer problems since a major rehabilitation project was undertaken in 2022 in fact, the reliability problems got to appoint where Pittsburg Regional Transit recently invested money in purchasing three Ford transit connect vans to be used specifically as shuttle vehicles on the Monongahela incline when it is out of service due to these persistent electrical and computer problems Fortunately, it seems like the Pittsburg Regional Transit has had some great people coming in to look at the Monga Hill incline to figure everything out. Hopefully, they can get to the bottom of these problems and resolve them. The redline right now, as we speak is undergoing a major rehabilitation project. The red line is shut down from South Hills Junction to Overbrook Junction, and they have shuttle buses, running between the shut down segments and it is scheduled to reopen in the beginning of September.

Awesome!!! as a former Pittsburgher I really love this system and its stunning scenic views. It (along with Boston's Green Line) surpasses the Subway Surface lines in my native Philly. And nice pictures of the old PRR train station too. I didn't know about the change from PAT to PRT but it makes a lot more sense than Septa's rebranding of its rail lines from names to weird letters (OK, I get "L" for the Market-Frankford el) Anyway the video was excellent.

Pittsburgher here. In response to your name-change question, nobody here ever acknowledges any infrastructure name changes of any kind. Of course it is still called PAT! If you say PRT, you will get a blank stare. Just like the stadium is still Heinz Field and the arena is still Consol (pronounced with the emphasis on the second syllable) Energy Center. In recognition of this immutable fact, after dozens of name changes that literally no one paid attention to, the amphitheater that opened in the 1980s as Star Lake Amphitheater has now, 40 years later, been renamed Star Lake Amphitheater.

I went to college in Pittsburgh from 2013, this video brings back old memories! I only rode the light rail to go to the sports games though 🫠 this video makes me want to go back for a weekend trip. Sorry to hear the folks weren’t friendly to yinz. Thank you for the video Thom!

"What do you think about the name change?" You notice that PRT's logo is three rings? Thats to let you know just what kind of circus they are.

GREAT VIDEO! Glad that Pittsburgh saved a remnant of the once vast streetcar system. Hopefully the T can be expanded. There has been talk of converting the East Busway to light rail, connecting at Penn Station. A BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) line is being constructed between downtown and Oakland, which hosts University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie-Mellon University as well as numerous medical facilities. A rail line would have been more efficient than a joke of a BRT"system" which consists of two bus lanes on parallel streets and has been studied to death for over 30 years. Paint some lines on the street and call it a day. The transit agency Port Authority had for many years used the acronym PAT, or Port Authority Transit. Then they relabeled themselves Port Authority, even though they didn't do anything with any ports. The newest rebrand is STUPID! PRT or "purt"--why not go back to the well known PAT for Pittsburgh Area Transit. Easier to pronounce and recognizable. Back to the Future--PAT. Go to WVU in nearby Morgantown--PRT.

The downtown station looks gorgeous. Shame that Pittsburg doesn't seem too interested in expanding their network. How is the land use around the stations? Seemed pretty quiet on the train. Also this must've been shot in winter!

Brilliant video sir, good tosee Lyndsey keeping an eye on you!!

For many years, I lived about 100' from the Fallowfield station, just south of South Hills Junction. Was there when the T opened. Rode it frequently a loved it. Would even just ride it to the ends and back as recreation! ! When it opened (1982?) the thought that it would reach capacity in 10 years. It did so in 2 and they had to find a way to increase passenger load. So, with some juggling of the controls, they were able to put tow units---4 coaches---together and the signal system would treat it as a single unit. Not sure what ridership is now as I moved from Pgh some years ago, altho I still consider it 'home'! Nice vid. Glad you 'finally' got to Pgh! ! Sorry you didn't go to the ends of each line.

Outstanding Video. 😊 Thanks For The History. 😂🎉😊

From a native here-overall a very good video. You really did your homework here however you did make one error- PCC streetcar service in Pittsburgh ended in 1999, not 1985. Also I wished you stopped by the PA Trolley Museum in nearby Washington, PA. As a volunteer motorman there I would've been more than happy to give you an in-depth look on the history of streetcar service in the Burg.

Thank you for this fascinating video. I don’t know Pittsburgh well, though I did visit when taking the train from Chicago to Harrisburg in 1992 (!) The train was of course Amtrak’s Broadway Limited, which sadly no longer runs. I now know I must revisit Pittsburgh ! Looking forward to the next episode.

Who doesn’t like trains?!! Love your informative videos. They actually help with planning trips to various places, helping with great ideas for maneuvering around cities and towns! Great job with the videos !

Awesome introduction to Pittsburgh's light rail system! I always see the infrastructure for this when I sometimes take the Pennsylvanian as it is visible by the bus shelter there. Speaking of the Pennsylvanian, since you were in Pittsburgh, will you be posting a Pennsylvanian report in the future? I didn't know if you had a chance to experience the Pennsylvanian while there.

Congrats on getting your videos sponsored! That's so cool.

Great video. I was just visiting Pittsburgh a month ago. Specifically to see how much we like the city for potentially relocating there from Philly. Philly is unfortunately getting too expensive for us to live in. Definitely very likely that we will move to Pittsburgh. We absolutely love this city. And riding the light rail was one of the highlights. If I happen to have a living and working situation that gives me the opportunity to ride the T for my commute, I'd love to do that. Edit: Just saw Classy Whale at the end of the video. Ayyy!

WOW so cool facts about Pittsburgh light rail

As a Pittsburgh resident I didn’t know we had local rail

A small correction: PCC service continued into the downtown tunnel into the early 1990s. This is why the older downtown stations have platforms at two levels: high for LRVs, low for PCCs. These cars ran over the overbrook route from the south hills to downtown. Once that track broke down and needed to be rebuilt, they brought it up to LRV standard and just kept a few PCCs for the run to Drake, which persisted until the early 2000s.

I enjoy the video👍👍

If you would have continued on the Red line you would have gotten to go thru a tunnel that goes under a cemetery between Dormont and Mt Lebanon stops.

Just wanna say how much I love your channel there hasn’t been a single vid I didn’t like

Aw a video full of special guests? Hopeful for the day where I can be in one of your videos. Maybe when Caltrain electrification opens.

The train system desperately needs to be expanded north with a few stops all the way up to cranberry and then from there to the airport and the airport to downtown. I know both north and west highways get crouded every day and having trains would be great for everyone. We need to also bring back trolleys to a few areas including from the strip district to Lawrenceville there is already existing but abandoned train lines that run that route so have a trolley run that area would be great. I think Pittsburgh could definitely benefit from streetcars similar to Toronto's.

I really need to visit Pittsburgh. Really hoping the Amtrak service between there and the Northeast Corridor really does improve, because right now, getting from DC to Pittsburgh sucks.

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yinz lol. nailed it.

Nice vid 👍

Seattle's transit tunnel was first used by hi tech dual mode diesel electric trolleycoaches. Not unlike Boston's waterfront Silver Line. Philadelphia subway surface lines use a tunnel running west from Juniper Street and City Hall along Market Street, plus under the Schuylkill River before fanning out in west and southwest Philadelphia. So it's more apt to compare Philadelphia and Pittsburgh than San Francisco.

My biggest issue with the PRT rebrand is that in the initial announcement, they insisted it was pronounced "part". The long Pittsburgh tradition of calling things by their old names (as well as navigating by previously-existing landmarks) says that it should be pronounced "port".

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Calgary Transit's LRT System is one of the largest and most used LRT Systems in North America

I thought, even if Brown line trains don't use the Allentown branch that they could make it possible that you can go from one corner, or either the Beechview or Overbrook lines, to either corner on the other side or anywhere on the Beechview or Overbrook lines. My Idea was Blue and Silver serve Penn Station, joins Red on the Beechview line, then Silver on the Library Branch. Unless Pittsburgh added regional rail, I don't see any reason to extend it (to Upper St. Clair and Piney Fork Rd. Both of these branches would actually end up in Washington, PA. One would have a transfer one stop before a new stop at Morgan for a Cincinnati/St. Louis/DFW? route, the other connects to Kennywood en route to Penn Station)

Yay Train Station II 🎉

Sorry to hear you encountered some not so friendly yinzers that left a bad impression. I am Belgian born and raised and live a couple stops after that Potomac station and I have always felt very welcome here. Loved the video and even learned a couple things!

Pittsburgh does have strange buses that go to weird places. In terms of tram fleet history they interesting tram vehicles dating back to the early 1980s, the SD400 came in 1985. Only issue with Pittsburgh PCCs is the city didn't opt to do something like SF, Boston, Kenosha, San Diego and Philadelphia. I am trying to get to Pittsburgh both as a railfan and tourist. I never seen you with a Sponsorship before.

God what I’d give for this train to go east-west. As much as I love it, it often feels like a rail for suburbanites to get to the stadiums. Not that they don’t deserve public transport, I’d just like to be able to use the train at all 😢

In my experience operating in St. Louis, the SD400 have seen better days. They ride rough, are sluggish and a pain to handle at times. I usually cringe when I see that they're assigned to me but I digress lol; perhaps the units in Pittsburgh handle better 🤷🏿‍♂😆 Pittsburgh uses the broad 5 ft 2+1⁄2 in (1,588 mm) Pennsylvania Trolley Gauge on it's lines as well as the low level doors for boarding. St. Louis uses standard gauge and the low level doors are used for yard movements, relief stops for train operators and bike storage (only on the trailing ends). I do wonder why Pittsburgh went with three high level doors on each side and not four like St. Louis? Lastly, I notice what appears to be a screen that you'd see on a farebox inside the operator cab. When you rode, did you have to show your fare to the train operator?

The last time I rode the the train there wasn’t a sliver line lol 😮

Great video

I personally don’t mind the change in name, I just hope it lives up to the implication. Pittsburgh light rail only really serves the south of Pittsburgh, totally ignoring the east, which, frankly, is where the most populated/vibrant neighborhoods are (squirrel hill, lawrenceville, etc) Also, sorry the locals were so rude to you!!

I would like your opinion on Pittsburgh's busways and how they fit into some sort of BRT concept that can be replicated elsewhere...

Are you doing a video on the inclines?

Amazing video! Maybe it’s just because I love St. Louis’s MetroLink, but I much prefer the look of the SD-400s to the CAF vehicles!

Could y'all check out the NFTA metro rail and bus in buffalo ny?

Busway is cool

I miss transit agencies having fare free zones.

On the differing entry heights: I don't get why they didn't use a design that they had already done before. Models like the Duewag B-Wagen, TW6000, P8, M-Wagen and a few more had folding steps that could accommodate street level and high floor boarding simply by folding out a little staircase with the press of a button. But these were built after Siemens acquired Duewag, which is when their decline started, so I'm not surprised the engineering ingenuity took a nose dive.

Looks good though I wish it has more doors

WTF, come to Düsseldorf, Germany.^^ I’ll go up to 50mph. 🤪 Also on our Düwag trains, we have the same doors (Siemes probably just used them as well after owning Düwag), but we have automatic stairs and extending steps on every door. So we can use every door on high level, street level or streetcar level platforms. 😊

name change was mid but the new leader of PRT has some pretty cool visions

How did u get from DC to Pittsburg for this trip?

Congratulations on being the first non-Pittsburgh KZfaqr to EVER pronounce “Monongahela” correctly 😂

I've lived here for 4 years now and the public transport is awful. The entire PRT needs an overhaul and they really, really need to invest in the light rail extension into other areas of Pittsburgh.

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Ever thought about coming to Phoenix to do a video?

About the name change from PAT to Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT). There has been a movement for the last decade to consolidate the seven transit authorities in the Pittsburgh region into one organization like what SEPTA in Philly does. The name change is just the first step in this consolidation. There are several hurdles in completing this consolidation but the main one is the Pa General Assembly to pass legislation that would create and finance this consolidation. As with everything concerning transit in PA, unless you are commuting into downtown for work, no one in the suburbs is willing to see their taxes go up for a service that they will not use. Unfortunately, transit in the Pittsburgh outlying county/communities are only used by the elderly and the economically disadvantaged.

In Pittsburgh, the areas of the city that are called Oakland, East Liberty and Shadyside are the places where all the action is, including Pitt University, Carnegie Mellon University, numerous other colleges and massive hospitals and clinics. Unfortunately, Light Rail doesn't go to any of these places. Why? It's due to cost. People are never going to accept street-running rail vehicles in these super-dense and congested areas and tunneling at a billion dollars per mile won't be happening either. Pittsburgh's Light Rail was made possible by using ancient but very fortuitously-located existing rights-of-way to offer commuters convenient access to Downtown offices from residential neighborhoods that peaked in the 1960s. Work-from-home has now made Downtown commutes unnecessary and so ridership is decimated just at the time that the system through these old neighborhoods needs an expensive update. It's a problem. Already the Silver Line is headed for abandonment. Hundreds of new homes being built on the Silver Line are not bringing new commuters and the giant parking garage built for the Blue and Red lines is mostly empty as are the numerous park-and-ride lots that cost tons of money to keep them in good condition. Lately, the old LRVs are breaking down frequently, scheduled trips are frequently out of service due to drivers not showing up for work and infrastructure in the underground stations is very unreliable. I wouldn't want to be the one at Pittsburgh Regional Transit to make the hard decisions regarding what is to happen with Pittsburgh Light Rail.

Hopefully Amtrak can start running more service out of Penn Station.

Go to Baltimore and make a video on light rail I heard there getting rid of there iconic cars soon. The subway is also worth checking out.

Why is train station 2 animation guy pouring mysterious black liquid on a union pacific locomotive? Or is that some trucking industry lobby

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Did they get new streetcars?

You're 100% right, they're way too slow, that's why they don't have a huge ridership. Compared to NYC, that's crawling..

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Lavender honey latte ❤ that sounds lovely

Very confused by your experience that Pittsburgh was not a friendly place. My personal experience--which I think aligns with general opinion--is that everyone here is super nice. (Especially the drivers, who will randomly break right-of-way laws to let you go first at a stop sign, which is actually kind of dumb and dangerous.)

The name change itself doesn't matter to much to me, but all the money they used to rebrand/repaint just seems like a waste when I could have been used to improve service.

More colonial train history please!