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

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

	Will have to read most of this later because of time - don't have a
dental appointment (thank goodness!!) to give reading time this time!
	Just a quick question on your opening comments - in a previous post you
mentioned that the PS might have run to the west of St. Anns toward the
Drake line.  Do you still feel this way after discovering this most
recent map?

	But again, the big question looms  --  if both the Charleroi and
Washington interurbans took advantage of some *abandoned* or otherwise
unused prw, why isn't this mentioned anywhere in descriptions concerning
the construction of these interurbans?  Surely the *capitalists* of the
day would have felt that was a real God-send to have part of their work
done and paid for!!!!

	Again  --  M-A-N-Y   T-H-A-N-K-S
		for your efforts in researching and typing this!!

> >Donald Galt mentioned:

> >Yet another perusal of the 1890 Allegheny County map that I have studied
> >before - not carefully enough, apparently - shows the Pittsburgh Southern
> >doing exactly what Jim says it should, heading from Wash Jct to Drake, then
> >curving around to the southeast, with Upper St. Clair station approximately
> >at the line now separating U St C township and Bethel borough.

John Swindler wrote:

> Map I have is from front index page for Allegheny County, and unfortunately
> also gives out somewhere along or before Logan Road.  Can't say it really
> "shows" - perhaps implies is a better word - that yes, PS followed Drake
> line to vicinity of Drake/Upper St. Clair village, but did not cross valley
> later spanned by Drake trestle, but as you mentioned, curved around to
> southeast.
> The logic of then heading towards King's School on Library line is
> interesting.  But curves and lack of cuts on Montour heading towards Library
> is also interesting.  So too is Piney Creek.  Guess we need some more
> digging.

> That said, here's some more "stuff".  As a caution, the Union Township
> comments were written some fifty years after the Pgh Southern's demise.  And
> as final note, these discussions concerning Pittsburgh Southern are implying
> that the history of the interurban division of Pittsburgh Railways south of
> Castle Shannon doesn't start around 1900 as many presumed, but dates back
> some 30 years prior to anything previously printed.

> John

James B. Holland

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