[PRCo] Re: Forbes Ave exposed track

[Joshua Dunfield]

> Forbes at Margaret Morrison.  Wasn't Margaret Morrison formerly called 
> "Woodbine" or "Wood-something-or-other?"    Those of you who have the 
> PRMA map handy from 1959 can confirm.

Woodlawn.  There's a CMU dorm that's still called "Woodlawn Apartments".

>   And so, that is area where the 
> former tracks of what once ran through Schenley Park from Bouquet & 
> Forbes to Boundary to Joncaire to what is now called Margaret Morrison 
> ran.   I believe that the Margaret Morrison tracks alone were kept open 
> for a short time after the abandonment of the rest of the Schenley Park 
> route.  Can't recall for sure, but I doubt if the track connections from 
> Forbes to Margaret Morrison were even slightly evident in 1967 when the 
> East End abandonments occured.

As I recall, the Pitt digital library maps (and Carnegie Tech bulletin
campus maps from the 1920s) show a number of different street/track
configurations...they liked renaming streets.

I have photocopies of some of the bulletin maps -- and excerpts
discussing the on-campus facilities, which included a "mine with
trolley wire" under what is now Doherty Hall.  (No details about the
trolley wire, I'm afraid.)  I'll try to remember to scan them in when
I get back to Pittsburgh.

-j.