[PRCo] Liberty Avenue

[Matt Barry]

Hello all,

Liberty Avenue, from 16th street to____?  is currently being scraped for 
eventual asphalt repaving.   Travelling over it yesterday afternoon, it 
was fairly easy to see that all of the rails that former PRC routes 
77/54, 88 Frankstown, 87 Ardmore, and 94 Sharpsburg used, are in tact.   
This includes the rails that turned in and out of 23rd and 24th streets 
(I may be off a street or two) from Penn Avenue to Liberty Avenue. 

I'd almost forgotten that alongside the outbound track that ran right 
alongside the stone wall of the Pennsylvania Railroad yards, there was a 
second paralleling outbound track used for those tracks connecting with 
the side streets to Penn for cars turning onto Penn or from Penn to 
Liberty.   Then at some point along Liberty, the two outbound tracks 
merged into one.   But the scraping wasn't done that far down Liberty.

Just interesting to see this history uncovered.

On that same trip yesterday, we were on the North Side, and drove up 
Chesnut Street from Spring Garden.  There on Chesnut, almost from the 
intersection with Spring Garden, was the original red brick street with 
car tracks in tact.   The wheels on my Ford rode the rails quite well.