[PRCo] Re: Brookline/Woodruff

[Dietrich, Robert J.]

The crossing track in the 1929 photo can be seen in the clip I am
attaching.  I have a tif file of the photo so I cropped just the
crossing to keep the size small.  If you look just under the man's rump
one rail is visible.  Who knows what happened to the other rail.  It
looks like the map, as Don described, is correct.  Virginia Avenue was
wide enough for double track, it is one of the wider streets on the
Mount.  Maybe PRCo was saving money by just laying a single track.
BTW Fred, there was always plenty of clearance on Shiloh Street if you
parked with your wheels against the curb.  When I was a kid there was no
parking on the right side of the street, that was the passing side.  It
was a different driving experience to have to squeeze over against the
left curb to allow the streetcar to get by.  I think that was probably
the worst street in the city for blocking the streetcar.

Bob

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[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of
Donald Galt
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 2:01 AM
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Subject: [PRCo] Re: Brookline/Woodruff

I've not yet seen answers to a couple of Mark's questions:

Yes, the cross street is Virginia.

Single- & double-track: My topo map dated 1931 shows double-track up
Woodruff 
to just short of Kearsarge, thence single into and along Virginia with a
block-
long passing loop between Shiloh and Wyoming, along with the single
connecting  
curve shown in the photo.

>From Virginia, single-track south on Wyoming to just before Bailey,
thence 
double-track around the corner and onward to a double-track crossover
terminus 
at the Castle Shannon North incline station.

Now, a question of my own: I can't make out any track across Shiloh in
the 
earlier photo, though you can see a remnant of it in the Roberta Hill
picture. 
If that track is shown on a 1931 map it ought to be in a 1929 photo,
right? - 
at least if the map was properly updated.

I've assumed that the 33 was cut back to the West End because of
construction 
of the Saw Mill Run Parkway and that until then it had always continued
on to 
Bailey Avenue terminus. Any reason to doubt this?

Don



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