[PRCo] Re: Wabash-Gateway Center-Streetcar

[James B. Holland]

Matt Barry wrote:

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> 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 buildings. 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.


The Forbes cars came down Diamond, left onto Ferry and left onto 
4th.       Ferry ran parallel to Market which is parallel to Wood and 
Ferry intersected Liberty across from Stanwix  --  approx!

> 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.


To complete the above sentence, shouldn't it be to  """.......the right  
[of the TrolleyCar  OR  to Left of photographer??"""       The track in 
the foreground of the first URL is from 3rd Street which also turns into 
Fourth and then onto Liberty and then onto Fifth!!       Look at the 
1917 Downtown Inset on the PTM PRCo map and it shows the triangular 
Wabash building but Diamond lacks tracks  --  track configuration onto 
Ferry renamed as Stanwix on 1959 Downtown Inset.       So yes, the 
Arcade would be in the background!       Wasn't the Arcade on Liberty 
between Fifth and Stanwix?       My Aunt's Watch repairman was in the 
Arcade and I remember being in there  --  and by it often to get to 
Horne's!!



Jim__Holland


I__Like__Ike.......And__PCCs!!

down with pantographs ---- UP___WITH___TROLLEYPOLES!!!!!!!


> 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."


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