[PRCo] Re: October 24, 1902

[robert netzlof]

--- Matt Barry <mrb190+ at pitt.edu> wrote:
> (where in the world is/was "Try Street?")

I looked at the several antique maps at: 

http://digital.library.pitt.edu/pittsburgh/

It's a little puzzling. It appears that Try Street ran more-or-less
parallel to Grant and was occupied by the tracks of the PCC&StL
Railroad (The Pan Handle). Over time, it appears that there was ever
more railroad and less street.

What's puzzling to me is that a 1920's map shows Try St. extending
from the Pan Handle bridge to 2nd Avenue, ditto for a 1903 map. That
is, Try doesn't go far enought to meet Forbes.

An 1870's map shows Try extending several blocks farther north, to
around the latitude of Forbes, but shows Forbes ending a block or two
east of Try St. That is, Forbes didn't go all the way into downtown.

So, I've not come up with a map which shows the intersection of
Forbes and Try, and three which suggest that the two were never quite
in the same place at the same time. Perhaps 1902 was the last year of
a golden era during which Forbes and Try actually intersected, just
before the stretch of Try from 2nd Avenue north was vacated in favor
of the PCC&StL RR.




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Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob


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