[PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh Streetcar Loops

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Joshua Dunfield wrote:

> > The "Braddock Avenue streetcar loop" was actually an alternate alignment
> > of Braddock Avenue from before the Parkway was built.
>
> So Braddock Ave itself moved?
>
> See, I thought it was a loop because the PERC map in the Carnegie Library
> shows a "former/unusable trackage" loop around there.  Looking at it
> again, though, the route itself takes a jog that doesn't correspond
> to (the present) Braddock Ave, so the stuff in the picture could well
> be the line itself.  In which case, I wonder where the loop on
> the PERC map was.

Someone will probably answer before I can walk upstairs and find my copy.

> (Or the PERC map might just be wrong, of course.  I haven't seen any
> evidence of that yet, but then it's hard to find evidence invalidating
> the map's claims for stuff that was already long gone in 1959.)

There's discussion about accuracy in the archive, but I can't remember
what the verdict was.