Various answers, corrections &c. ATTN: Jim Holland & John Swindler

[Donald Galt]

On 12 Sep 00, at 19:29, Jim Holland wrote:

> the section of history below confuses me as how does a standard
> gauge RR get from Banksville to the West End?  Did it follow W.
> Liberty inbound to Saw Mill and then head west? 
> 
The Little Saw Mill Run RR, eventually part of the West Side Belt 
RR, ran down Little Saw Mill Run (alongside the Banksville Road), 
then Saw Mill Run to the Monongahela. Only this last part, forming 
the W Side Belt's entry to Pittsburgh, remains. The Banksville 
branch appears on a 1930 street map and on the P&WV maps 
(though not the timetables) in 1916, 1930 and 1938 Guides, but not 
in a 1947 Guide. Nor is it shown on a 1948 USGS topo.

The Pittsburgh Southern climbed more or less directly from 
Banksville to what became the site of Clearview Loop over a route 
long since obliterated, then, of course, on to Castle Shannon.

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