[PRCo] Re: Route 9

[tsquare at toad.net]

TGM's tape, Pittsburgh's North Side, answered some -- but not all -- 
questions that I had on this

Tom 

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Subject: [PRCo] Re: Route 9



The Charles St. to Perrysville South connection seems to be there, but
I'm not certain.  I even checked the North Side video which features a
very quick shot of a route 9 meeting up with a route 21.  I couldn't
pick out any trackage in it unfortunately.

Donald Galt wrote:

> On 19 May 01, at 20:11, Bob Rathke wrote:
>
> >
> > Thanks, Fred.  This would explain the rail connecting
> > outbound Perrysville Avenue to Charles St. - but no overhead
> > wire - as seen in the 8/31/47 photo at
> > <http://davesrailpix.railfan.net/pitts/htm/kjpgh300.htm>.
> > This track is not shown on the 1959 PERC map, implying that
> > route 9-Perrysville/Charles may have operated pre-1920.
>
> I'm not convince that we can see such a Perrysville Ave. - Charles
> Street curve in this picture. Everybody take another look.
>
> I can add this:
>
> My city topographic map (Sheet 46) is dated 1937, and shows
> exactly the same track arrangement at this intersection as the
> PTM map, i.e. double track through on Perrysville, double-track
> curve from route 9 north to Perrysville, curves from route 21 to
> Perrysville in both directions. If there was no south-to-west
> connection from Perrysville to Charles in 1937, I think it highly
> unlikely that there was one in 1947.
>
> Don