[PRCo] Wabash-Gateway Center-Streetcar

[Matt Barry]

I take it there must have been some re-configuring of streetcar routes 
when the Wabash Bldg. and other were demolished to make way for the 
Gateway Center buidlings.    I just can't figure out what the heck this 
route 64 car is doing in these photos.   One photo is from a distance, 
showing the whole area, and the next is a close-up.

Here's the description, but it's hard for me to believe that that entire 
building behind the streetcar is the Jenkins Arcade.   I thought Jenkins 
was on Liberty between Fifth and Stanwix.

Matt

"Looking down what was then known as Ferry Street (now known as Stanwix 
Street) in downtown Pittsburgh, this photograph shows the ruins of the 
old Wabash Railroad Terminal on the right. The terminal had been one of 
five railroad terminals in Pittsburgh until it was destroyed by fire in 
1946, clearing the way for the demolition of the entire area and 
construction of the Gateway Center project. The building on the far 
right center of the photograph is the old Jenkins Arcade, later razed to 
make space for the building now known as One Fifth Avenue Place."






-- Attached file removed by Ecartis and put at URL below --
-- Type: image/jpeg
-- Size: 87k (89299 bytes)
-- URL : http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/wabashdem01.jpg


-- Attached file removed by Ecartis and put at URL below --
-- Type: image/jpeg
-- Size: 65k (67154 bytes)
-- URL : http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/wabashdem02.jpg