[PRCo] Re: Rt. 49 and Brownsville Ave. single track

[Jim Holland]

>> Dietrich, Robert J. commented:

>> I'm just a little confused though.  What is Brownsville Avenue?  Isn't
>> Arlington Ave. The one track mountain trail that goes from Carson St. to
>> Warrington Ave?

> John Swindler wrote:

> In 1858 the one-track mountain trail was known as the Brownsville Turnpike
> Road.
> In 1895 the mountain trail on north side of Mt. Washington was known as
> Brownsville Avenue.  At top of hill became Brownsville Rd. to S. 18th St.
> (which wasn't at that time - it was Birmingham St.).
> Continuing south from what is now Arlington Ave. and S. 18th St.
> intersection in Mt. Oliver, was Brownsville Road, Brownsville Plank Road or
> Southern Ave., (probable error by map maker) depending on various maps from
> circa 1900.
> By 1899, Arlington Ave. had been extended westward through Allentown to
> intersection Brownsville Ave. and Washington Ave.  Washington Ave.?????
> That's now Warrington.
> And because Arlington Ave. designation caused a separation of Brownsville
> Rd., apparently at some more recent time the mountain trail on Mt.
> Washington was renamed Arlington Ave.

> Confused???  Well, I am, and that's with a bunch of maps in front of me!!!
> What was that comedy routine about 'Who is on first'?

	We have 24-hour channels here, so don't know where to begin with number
one!  And then which channel  --  guess the lowest number is first, yes?

> More recently, those of us of a certain age still recall Diamond St. in
> downtown Pittsburgh, which is now Forbes.

	MOST  of us on this list can remember Diamond  --  the way it will be
on my future model layout!
	FWS3 and Fred-B and Fred-S and Bob-R and Ed-L and Tom and Matt and Ed-T
and Carl and Roger and Saturn and John and Jim and.....  all these
remember Diamond!  Don will remember it, too, even though he didn't live
here!

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James B. Holland
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