[PRCo] Re: Latrobe

[robert netzlof]

--- "Edward H. Lybarger" <twg at pulsenet.com> wrote:
> ...the photo of the intersection
> has no available detail about the orientation of the switch at
> Depot and Ligonier...

Too bad.

> Originally, there was no barn, and the cars were stored outside 
> along W. Harrison Avenue, which is maybe a mile south of the
> end of the line.

The "one mile sounds about right.

> The Jefferson Street barn was built in 1902.

Which was >after< the 1901 grade crossing elimination. Hmmm. 

> Now on to the West Penn city map of Latrobe:
> from the carbarn opposite the alley between Walnut and
> Chestnut,...

Hmmm. Perhaps there were two car houses (at different times) on
Jefferson? (See my remarks about one of Derrick's photos) The West
Penn sub-station and garage on Jefferson didn't extend that far
south, as I recall.

> Alexandria Street - from Main to the first street (alley?) north of
> PRR (unnamed on map).  Pencil line turns right here and meets up 
> with Thompson Street line about 2 blocks east.

And that is a real puzzle. I think the street is named Baker Hill
these days. It dead-ends a couple hundred feet east of Alexandria,
BUT the ground level out there is 40 feet or so above Thompson
St./Derry St. Look at it this way. Alexandria passes under the PRR
main line. Baker Hill of course begins at that level. By the end of
Baker Hill, the street is level with the PRR main.

Meanwhile, Alexandria has been droppong down-grade from the PRR
underpass. Thompson/Derry is fairlly level, but between the drop on
Alexandria and the rise on Baker Hill, there is no way a street car
could have managed that route.

> To the left from Alexandria and the
> unnamed street is pencilled in what appears to be a line to a
> representation of a station, almost as far west as Ligonier Street.

The PRR station grounds occupied, at various times, nearly all or all
of the block bounded by Alexandria, McKinley, Ligonier, PRR main
line. Don't know where the station house was located at each moment
in history. Most recent is smack in the middle but it could have been
closer to Ligonier at some time in the past.

> Thompson Street - from Jefferson to PRW alongside PRR about 4
> blocks to the east.

Yes, although "alongside" at the foot of a high fill.

> -- I'll volunteer to go with Derrick some day here.

Keep me posted on that. 95 miles/2.25 hours notwithstanding, this is
getting interesting.
 
> Somewhere I have a neatly and properly filed slide of the first
> Latrobe car
> house property. [...] and can tell me the date, in which case I
will
> scan the
> image and send it to Derrick for posting.

Or even without the date, please. This talk of "...between Walnut and
Chestnut..." has me really puzzled. (Or I've forgotten some Latrobe
geography.) Refer again to the topo map. That long black blob at
right angles to Jefferson is on the southern side of the former West
Penn grounds.

=====
Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob


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