[PRCo] Re: 46--line vs 49--line

[John Swindler]

There was a comment in a Fayette County history book that there was a time 
when Brownsville was in competition with Pittsburgh to be the major city in 
this region on the western frontier.  The National Pike went through 
Brownsville, and was also navigable on the Monongahela River to New Orleans. 
  There was a large ship building industry in Brownsville.

Without checking an old road map, apparently Arlington Ave./Brownsvile Plank 
Road/goat path on Mt. Washington served as the 'branch line' to Pittsburgh 
from the National Road at Brownsville, which later continued west through 
Washington County to the Ohio River at Wheeling.

As for the 'ballon route', Bill Vigrass wrote an account of such a trip for 
Headlights about 15 years ago.

John



>From: Jim Holland <pghpcc at pacbell.net>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: 46--line  vs  49--line
>Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 19:52:32 -0700
>
>
> > tsquare at toad.net wrote:
>
> > To quote my brother when he first saw the 46-BROWNSVILLE
> > destination sign:  "Sheez, I thought West Penn went to
> > Brownsville!"  Oh, well, what did he know!
>
>	That is the only piece missing which prevented  WP--PRCo
>		from offering a  "Balloon--Route"  --
>			Pittsburgh,  Charleroi,  Roscoe,
>			<<California,  Brownsville,>>
>			Uniontown,  Connellsville,  Scottdale,
>			Greensburg,  Irwin,  Trafford,  Ardmore,
>			East--Liberty,  Pittsburgh!!
>
> > PS - I held off with this wondering if someone else would
> > come up with it first -- the wait, however, was intolerable.
> > Gotta find that TYLENOL! (yuk-yuk!)
>
> > Sorry.
>
> > Tom
>
>--
>James B. Holland
>

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