[PRCo] Re: an unknown Pittsburgh coal haulage trolley line?

[Edward H. Lybarger]

It's in the wrong place to have been part of the P&CSRR.  That line also
ended at the end of a tunnel, which this is not doing.

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Holland
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 5:33 PM
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Subject: [PRCo] Re: an unknown Pittsburgh coal haulage trolley line?


I zoomed in further on the last image to this:
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http://tinyurl.com/spgfx
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Don't see any overhead.       How does size / height of brackets compare
to that building?       Brackets are spaced rather closely which would
seem unusual for overhead unless it is quite a sharp curve.       Simple
line poles with spans would seem much more efficient.
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Believe it is part of this narrowgauge line that became the Interurban line.
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aprochek at aol.com wrote:
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> I don't know if anyone will be able to make heads or tails out of the
> URLS below but I was perusing the historic pittsburgh image
> collections (first URL) and searched for Inclines and found a coal
> haulage incline between the MT Oliver and Knoxville inclines. That is
> what the remaining monstrous URLs are supposed to point to. The coal
> haulage doesn't appear to be from a direct mine shaft but fed from a
> narrow gauge rail line across the face of the hill (in one of the blow
> ups - the last URL - you can see a building with "Coal Yard" hand
> written on it). I think its an electric line as there looks to be a
> lot of catenary poles above the tracks, but they are only about 5'
> high or so. This is typical for mining operations but would seem
> deadly to me for open, accessible operation to the public. Does
> anybody know anything about this?
> Regards
> Alex
>
>
http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?xc=1&page=index&g=i
mls
>
>
http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?sid=0f941ae113d37ce
da62da9acad8930bf;type=boolean;xc=1;g=imls;view=thumbnail;start=41;q1=inclin
e;rgn1=ic_all;size=20
>
>
http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?sid=0f941ae113d37ce
da62da9acad8930bf;xc=1;g=imls;c=pghrail;q1=incline;rgn1=ic_all;evl=full-imag
e;quality=2;view=entry;subview=detail;lasttype=boolean;cc=pghrail;entryid=x-
7429.0027.pr;viewid=74290027.TIF;start=1;resnum=42
>
>
http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?sid=0f941ae113d37ce
da62da9acad8930bf;xc=1;g=imls;c=pghrail;q1=incline;rgn1=ic_all;evl=full-imag
e;quality=2;view=entry;subview=detail;lasttype=boolean;cc=pghrail;entryid=x-
7429.0031.pr;viewid=74290031.TIF;start=1;resnum=46
>
>
http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?sid=0f941ae113d37ce
da62da9acad8930bf&xc=1&g=imls&c=pghrail&q1=incline&rgn1=ic_all&ox=901&oy=392
&lastres=0&res=-1&width=750&height=592&maxw=3000&maxh=2368&subview=getsid&la
sttype=boolean&view=entry&viewid=74290031.TIF&entryid=x-7429.0031.pr&cc=pghr
ail&quality=2&resnum=46&evl=full-image&image.x=218&image.y=301