Dooker's Hollow Tracks

400 yards of streetcar tracks have been hiding in the weeds parallel to Bell Avenue in North Braddock near Dooker's Hollow. The recent replacement of the bridge revealed the tracks when they cleared the roadway as a construction access. This section of tracks was abandoned when the first Dooker's Hollow bridge was constructed. They lay there in the weeds known only to locals who continued to use the road as a pedestrian route. {10297}. Pittsburgh and Allegheny County have undertaken to obliterate all vestiges of its once extensive passenger rail system. The tracks have been pulled from streets where new concrete pavement is placed. Where an asphalt layer is placed, the tracks are merely buried under the pavement. Those tracks occasionally reappear when the asphalt weathers, cracks and crumbles. Even so, there are seven locations I have documented where legacy tracks have never been buried under pavement.