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

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Yes.  By "broad gauge" I refer to trolley tracks.

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



Good Morning!

> "Edward H. Lybarger" wrote:

> The track marked in red is clearly going to the old P&CS tunnel, which of
> course is much higher up on the hillside.  Do not rely on this map to
> indicate broad gauge tracks...they may have just been tracks visible to
the
> surveyor.

	For broad gauge, you mean PRCo trackage?

> I'm also not certain we will ever know the origin of some of this
> trackage...the carhouse area was built in stages, and I'm assuming the
> tracks would have been too.

	Fascinating the information that has come together as a result of the
inquiry!

	Think you had indicated, and Ben Rohrbeck's plans of PRCo Car Houses
confirms, that tracks 4,5,6 were the  *original*  tracks in the yard with
the rest added later.

	So the date for this photo is definitely post 1919 as the High School is
identified and the vent stacks for the  *tubes*  are evident   ---   and
the date is probably well into the 1920s.   Just another 34-years
*maximum*  and the interurbans run only to Drake and Library.
	The Jct. still looks kind of  *crude*  for that late a date!

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