south side trackage

[Derrick J Brashear]

I have in front of me the "PERC" trackage map (republished at the time of
my purchase by PRMA) 

All of my more detailed (not trackage-wise but in terms of being able to
tell what streets are what) maps are not to be found right now.

I'm looking at several things

One is the Brady St. Bridge. On the Soho side it's labelled "Brady", on
the South Side end it's S. 22nd, with the southbound track swinging west
what looks like half a block or a block on the map. I know from Sanborn
fire insurance maps that S. 22nd was basically where it is now, that is,
half a block west of the bridge, and in fact the map shows the street at
the south side end as "Brady" even while labelling the bridge S. 22nd
St.... Anyhow, the Sanborn maps don't show trolley trackage... did the
track coming south swing over to S. 22nd, or S. 21st? As the PRR Whitehall
branch ran in the center of S. 21st, I assume the former. 

At some point my maps will show up as I'm sorting through stuff, or I'll
be done with work for this conference I'm going to and will be able to
just go over to the Pennsylvania Dept at the Carnegie and poke through
maps, but I was hoping one of you might know offhand.

I'm also curious about the Sarah St. (horsecar) trackage but I know I have
some research about that around *somewhere*... I think I might have even
seen it recently.

You can pick on computers as eliminating some of the purity of research,
but let me tell you, having documents on CD, even in raster form and with
minimal indexing, beats the hell out of the "where did I put it" game.

-D
-who burns documents and picture he picks up from the net to CD for
organization reasons as well as for backup purposes....




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