[PRCo] Re: Santa Barbara Siding

[John Swindler]

Santa Barbara was not an original siding on the Pittsburgh, Canonsburg & 
Washington St. Ry. (name from 1934 plat map).  First outbound siding from 
Washington Jct. was Brookside, just south of Ft. Couch Road.

At Santa Barbara, the outbound track is on the original alignment.  The 
siding was created by adding a passing track on the east side of the line 
for inbound cars.

Try the following for the 1934 plat map south of Pittsburgh:

http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/maps/showmap.pl

This is a new one, and has some interesting items:  Clearview Loop and 
Dormont Wye are as we knew them, but Castle Shannon was quite different.  
The map shows each individual track and switch, and stops are shown on the 
interurban lines.  I find of interest the Railroad St. heading south from 
Castle Shannon.  Original Pittsburgh and Southern alignment??

Rt. 42/43 trackage on Broadway was still in a median through Beechview, and 
it was single track Potomac Ave. to Dormont Wye with a passing track at 
Dormont St./Ave.(??).  Didn't browse the interurban line trackage through 
Fairhaven.

John



>From: Macmarka at cs.com
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Santa Barbara Siding
>Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 18:34:30 EST
>
>
>   Then the PERC map (1859-1959) is incorrect. If you look at the Drake 
>line,
>it shows the siding on the left. I like to know if a car is inbound or
>outbound when labeling photos. I incorrectly labeled that photo of yours 
>Bob
>because I looked at the PERC map. I was watching the TGM South Side 
>video(for
>the umteenth time) when I noticed a difference. Thanks!
>
>Mark


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