[PRCo] Re: Braddock Avenue (was Re: Re: Elliot-Sheraden)

[Matt Barry]

Thanks for sharing this.
It will be interesting to watch these historic photographic websites 
grow.  


Derrick J Brashear wrote:

>Rather than bore you with the gory details... yeah, what Jim said.
>
>Anyway, on another topic, you can search by image number at the Pitt
>digital library site now
>(http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx/)
>
>Search for "msp285.b010.f19.i0" as the image identifier to find it (they
>added a search by image identifer recently)
>
>Zoom in on the portion of Braddock Avenue at left, to full zoom. You will
>notice:
>
>1) where 2 tracks merge to one so the PRR East Pittsburgh branch can share
>the street.
>2) the East Pittsburgh branch entering the street.
>3) that both are in the street where they pass the bridge that connected
>to the road to McKeesport. (meaning you could have wrong-way-running
>streetcars when you came off that bridge)
>4) no floodgates.
>5) something that looks like an old road right of way toward the hillside
>from the current Braddock Avenue right of way, with steps up to the houses
>at railroad level. I'm not sure what the deal is there, and it will
>probably take a trip or two to do some research to find out.
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