Kennywood question and another...

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, mrb190 wrote:

> 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

> 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.?

In the business district, then dropped down. Remember that what's now
Duquesne Blvd didn't even always exist.

> 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?

That'd be a neat trick, since Sandy Creek isn't next to Verona. There was
a trestle over Sandy Creek though, ending above where Butler Gas is now. 

-D