south side trackage

[Donald Galt]

On 1 May 00, at 13:01, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> 
> 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. 

This from the 1931 edition of the city topographic map, Sheet 12:

The Brady Street Bridge ended in Brady Street, a little less than halfway 
from 22d to 23d Street. Trackage coming off the bridge turned west on 
Wharton Street to 22d, then south to Carson, with curves eastward and 
westward at 22d and Carson.

In the other direction, tracks from Carson Street east- and westbound 
turned north on Brady Street and onto the bridge.

This corresponds with the routing shown on the PTM map, which shows the 
street names incorrectly.

I have some further questions about South Side lines shown on the topo 
map, but haven't time to formulate them just yet.

Don G