Kennywood question and another...

[mrb190]

Just picked a copy of the new book, MCKEESPORT TROLLEYS and have only begun
to read it.  My congratulations to the author for a fantastic effort.  Much
appreciated that he put this together.

Finally, I "see" how the 56 came out of Hays up to Lincoln Place.  I live in
Munhall currently, not all that far from the intersection of Mifflin Road and
Interboro Avenue.  For some time, in my mind's eye, I just could not
reconcile how the 56 maneuvered its way up alongside Mifflin Road to the
point it met with route 65 Munhall.   NOW, with this book, I see that the
section between Hays and the old Sunoco station (near the street which I
can't think of the name of right now --->  it leads up to highway rt 885 and
alongside it is now where PAT's Mifflin headquaters are) was not PRW, but
street running.   Some books indicated that it was all PRW from the Mansfield
Bridge on down into Hays.
And also, it was never clear to me how the route came up along side Mifflin
to meet with rt 65.  The AM/PM mini-market is now located where apparently
the cars came across Mifflin and turned down behind where there is now a
trailer park (where some place called Calhoun Park was once located).  I just
couldn't figure this one out before.

Now a Kennywood - Route 68 question.

There is a photograph in the book which depicts a route 68 PCC on a very
narrow street and the caption reads:  "First at Hamilton."   I thought that
route 68 stayed on Duquesne Blvd. all the way to the old McKeesport Bridge.
Apparently it did not.  Did it go up into the Duquesne business district?
Or did it drop down below Duquesne Blvd. for a period of time before coming
back out onto the Blvd.?

If you haven't guessed already, I am one of these guys who puzzles over how
the old streetcar routes reached point A to point B, to point C, and so on,
particularly with those roads that changed landscapes after streetcar
abandonment.   I am old enough to remember the East End and North Side lines
in action (I grew up in Lawrenceville and rode the Frankstown and 77/54
frequently), but not the Kennywood run.

Here's another one:

My sister and her husband used to live in Penn Hills on Glendale Road.  Just
below Glendale, her two kids used to play on a bluff above Verona Road, and
found rails and ties long embedded in the ground.  This, I believe, is where
the old Verona carline ran, having come up Laketon Road, crossing Frankstown
and turning onto prw above Verona Road on down to Sandy Creek.  Once it
reached Sandy Creek, I imagine it crossed a high trestle to Third Avenue in
Verona.   This is a tough one since I think PRC discontinued the line in the
1930's.   But, does anyone know the route this line took?  Maps anyone?

Thanks!
Matt