[PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh Streetcar Loops

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Matt Barry wrote:
>
> > I used to drive passed there and wondered why the original Braddock
> > veered off so far from where it eventually connected up again with the
> > rest of Braddock Ave.   I mean, if the newer concrete Braddock didn't
> > exist, what was there before?   And the old Braddock seemed to be
> > travelling back towards Pittsburgh.    So, one travelled down the
> > original Braddock and then made a sharp swerve left back up to meet with
> > the rest of Braddock?
>
> Well, I found at least one map which showed a road going down to meet
> Commercial St by the Irish Center, leaving from the apex of the bend on
> Braddock before realignment.

The digital library site at Pitt comes through. It was Forward Avenue. I
guess Forward came down the hill and Commercial started there and went up
to Swisshelm Park.

The outrageously long url to the image (you can do this, though, at least,
instead of copying the url for the page which is the result of an HTTP
POST command and thus never renders the same for another person) is:

http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/maps/imagegif.pl?client=maps&image=03vevp07&x=2717&y=5182&level=2&width=1024&height=768