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

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Let's also take another tack to this investigation.  The location shown in
the photo and on the map is about a mile away from the mouth of the coal
tunnel, and almost due east.  Is this possible?  How long was that coal
tunnel?

Is it possible that there was a second coal tunnel that emerged by the
Knoxville Incline, one that was not related to the P&CS operation?

Now that I look at that distance and direction, I think I'm uncertain
exactly what I'm looking at.  More research will be required.

Ed

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


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