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

[Donald Galt]

On 4 Jan 2007 at 20:47, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> Aha!  Then it IS the north end of the P&CSRR!  PRCo ownership of the parcel
> where the tunnel portal is located kinda ties it down, doesn't it?  And
> explains why you don't see the tunnel in the photo. It's behind a building
> but is more likely boarded up.

Forgive me if I'm missing something, but none of the pictures I picked up in 
this thread is anywhere near the P&CS, neither incline nor tunnel.

The P&CS original line did a complete 180-degree horseshoe just short of  
Haberman Avenue, headed back west and curved around to proceed up the draw 
above the south portal of the PRCo tunnel. Its own south portal was just west 
of Westwood Avenue, at or possibly just above the level of Eutaw Street. Not 
quite straight, it emerged on the north below Neff Street and above the hairpin 
bend of Sycamore Street, and bifurcated in a triangular junction. The left 
branch ran along the west side of the draw and ended in what must have been a 
coal tunnel, below and more or less in line with the east end of Grandview 
Avenue. The right branch bent toward the east and ended at the head of the 
original incline at about the 1025-foot level of the right of way used 
eventually for the Castle Shannon (north) incline of recent memory.   

The Castle Shannon south incline, for those uncertain, started across Bailey 
Avenue from and just east of the head station of the north incline, and ran 
down the reservation between Haberman Avenue and Laclede Street.

Don G