[PRCo] Re: 1965 PAT fantrip

[John Swindler]

Try this for 1903

http://digital.library.pitt.edu/maps/03sv3ind.html


It looks like track on Liberty was gone by 1923, but better detail of PRR 
track layout.

http://digital.library.pitt.edu/maps/23v01ind.html

John


>From: Joshua Dunfield <Joshua_Dunfield at mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: 1965 PAT fantrip Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 00:31:06 -0400
>
>Harold Geissenheimer wrote:
>
> > Trolleys on Penn southbound (one way then), on Liberty two way and
> > on on 9th, 7th and 6th.  No trolleys on 10th.  Freight trains once
> > ran on Liberty
> > There was a PRR elevated structure for freight on the Blvd.
>
>Freight trains on Liberty?  How far did the tracks go?
>
>Actually, I'm very curious about how the whole Penn Station area was
>laid out.  A few weeks ago I was riding Amtrak from Philly to Pgh.
>Those trains usually arrive Pgh on the left-hand (southernmost)
>through track, but NS was doing an insane amount of track work -- I
>lost count of how many MoW vehicles we passed -- and we got shoved off
>to one of the right-hand tracks.  Whatever platform used to be out
>there had long since decayed into oblivion, so I got to jump down and
>over the rutted dirt... Anyway, from there I noticed a couple of
>"MOVING STAIRS" signs for long-vanished escalators that couldn't
>possibly connect to anything now.
>
>Obviously, the building must have been very different back when it was
>all a train station instead of apartments with a tiny station in the
>basement.  Anyone remember how it worked?  If the "MOVING STAIRS"
>signs are where they always were, it seems like there must be
>(now blocked off) corridors underneath the platforms.
>
>Any information about the track layout (particularly before the busway
>and subway were built) would be interesting as well.
>
>-j.
>

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