Interurbans *from* Pittsburgh

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Donald Galt wrote:

> You can drive up it for a few hundred yards - I did so today. To my innocent
> outlander eyes, the human culture looked very Appalachian; I'm not sure I'd
> have the guts to ignore the barrier on foot.

Well, today there was a truck being loaded with logs by a piece of heavy
equipment at the lower barrier, so I gave up, and went to the top, and
parked at the barrier at the upper end off the stretch, and walked down
in. Aside from the road looking like it lacked good drainage because some
of the culverts under the road had plugged it looked passable except where
the heavy equipment was being used for logging; there the road is a mess,
and we turned back up the hill. The right of way iss quite evident though
I saw nothing of interest other than cut-down telephone poles.

> I took a picture from the road crossing at the summit, looking north along
> what I think was the right of way. Try as I might, I couldn't make out any
> formation on the south side of the road where the line curved off westward to
> begin the descent along the bluffs.

As you ascend from Charleroi on route 88, there's a spot in the concrete
barrier where there are steel beam guardrails for a few feet; A guess is
this is where the line cut away from 88 and headed back along the
hillside.

Also, was the crossing under 837 at the crest a tunnel or did 837 bridge
the line, do any of you know?

-D