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

[John Swindler]

>From: "Dietrich, Robert J." <bob.dietrich at unisys.com>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: "'pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org'"  
><pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Rt. 49 and Brownsville Ave. single track
>Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 07:18:19 -0400
>
>
>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
>

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