[PRCo] Re: Schenley Park Streetcar Route

[Joshua Dunfield]

>   Chartered in October 1887, the Squirrel Hill Railroad Company was to 
> be an approximately 3.5 mile route from Fifth Av and Boquet St, through 
> the future site of Forbes Field, over Junction Hollow, through the 
> future site of Carnegie-Mellon University and into Squirrel Hill via 
> Homewood Av, Murray Av and to a point near Homewood Cemetery at 
> Beechwood Blvd and Dallas Av.
> Read on, and see photo of the trestle over Neville Street in the hollow.
> 
> http://pghbridges.com/pittsburghE/0589-4477/schenleytrolley.htm

: "Though a couple of photos show the line in operation,"

As it happens, I recently scanned a page from "Oakland (Images of America)"*
with a photo supposedly from 1893, showing a trolley heading out of the
Carnegie Tech area:

  http://gs146.sp.cs.cmu.edu:8080/oaklandbook/2.jpg

But the page you cited claims work was stopped in 1890...

(For anyone who doesn't know, Homewood Av in Squirrel Hill is now
Northumberland St.)

* http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0738538671/104-9430859-9110368?v=glance

Best,
-j.