[PRCo] Re: A new photo i need help with.

[Donald Galt]

Fascinating photo, Bob. The truck appears to be vintage about 1915, though the car behind it looks rather newer.

The high school is shown on the original of the map, though it is off the edge of your excerpt. It can also be seen in the picture, 
obscured by trees immediately above the SHJ main building.

The Liberty Tunnels were opened on 27 Mar 1928, so were not quite complete at the publication date of the map. Whether or not they were 
open at the time of the photo, I'd bet that the ventilating towers were still a novelty on the skyline.

The track shown in red is the remnant of the P&CS main line leading up to the tunnel built to replace the dual-stage incline trip over the 
mountain. It was reached by the horseshoe that is cut off at the east edge of your map. The tunnel, roughly in line with the later, longer, 
lower PRCo tunnel, opened out on the north side to a shorter incline  - which somewhat ironically disappeared half a century or so earlier 
than the Castle Shannon North incline. The new line and tunnel did, however, make the CS South incline redundant.

The right of the way of this track is atop the embankment shown in the photo (the houses are built along Paur St.) The lane curving above 
and parallel to it on the map is, by the way, named Shanroad Way.

Don