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

[Dietrich, Robert J.]

I hope we are not going to get into the intersecting of Fifth and Sixth
Avenues!!!

So it appears that Arlington was Brownsville Road around 1927 (Approx time
of the court proceeding that John started this with), and Arlington Ave. by
1931.  Well, we got that unless and irrelevant piece of information down to
a 4 year span. 

I really enjoy this group...

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Donald Galt [mailto:galtfd at att.net] 
Sent:	Tuesday, June 05, 2001 8:38 PM
To:	pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject:	[PRCo] Re: Rt. 49 and Brownsville Ave. single track


On 4 Jun 01, at 17:25, John Swindler wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 

What my maps say is that Brownsville Ave of 1900 had become 
Arlington Ave by the early '30s.

The city topo map dated 1931 calls it Arlington Ave. Not New 
Arlington - I know I've seen that name in print but can't find it on 
any map.

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

Not only that, Forbes through Soho and Oakland was in those 
days Forbes *Street*, not Avenue. It fell victim to the grid yahoos 
who decree that streets and avenues must cross each other, never 
run parallel.

Don