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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I’m starting to update my route maps for the Pittsburgh Area Interurban Lines, in advance of visiting the PTM Archive next year.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Questions related to Interurban routes:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Greensburg: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>The maps in the CERA West Penn Traction book and the PTM West Penn Railways booklet are different. CERA shows a turn on the Otterman line at Hamilton extending to Ludwick, but the PTM map shows it ending at Hamilton and Otterman.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>The CERA map shows the line on Alexander extending to Weaver before turning onto Green. The PTM map shows the line on Alexander extending only to Stanton (misspelled Station?) before turning onto Green.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph>There is a 1949 and 1950 Greensburg Map at Penn State Map Library. Anybody checked that or another contemporary map to confirm the correct locations? Or have access to another map of Greensburg from before the abandonment?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>North Vandergrift:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> The map in Dennis Cramer’s Trolleys of Armstrong County seems to show the line closer to the river than my tracing from the 1938 aerials and digital elevation data. It sure looks like it would have been on a private right-of-way west of Lincoln Ave until it joined Lincoln Ave (rt 66) around 3<sup>rd</sup> St and then continued along Lincoln until going back on private right-of-way east of town but Dennis and Ed must have a reason for showing the route which I assume follows the alley between Lincoln and Jefferson?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in'>Latrobe:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in'> The discussion last year on the list and the map Bob Netzlof drew clears up questions I had, but also shows the Westmorland County Street Railway that I cannot find any route documentation for. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>FYI <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Penn State Library Digital Collection includes a<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>1920 Lewis’ Pittsburgh Street & Trolley Guide<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://collection1.libraries.psu.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/digitalbks2/id/15293/rec/3">http://collection1.libraries.psu.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/digitalbks2/id/15293/rec/3</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have attached a spreadsheet with the Suburban lines transcribed. Lewis gives the Routes a letter/number designation. I am assuming these were assigned by Lewis rather than as an official designation of the Routes. For some reason there is no Route B or H. Were these in earlier Lewis guides and abandoned before 1920?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Stephen Titchenal<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Stephen@Titchenal.com<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>railsandtrails.com<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div>
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