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

[aprochek at aol.com]

Well, i am as confused as ever.  I didn't think it was the P&CS because its too far east, the tunnel and coal incline for that system was next to the Castle Shannon Incline. BUT there is no doubt the map shows the tunnel entrance to this thing is PRCo property. Maybe they moved the whole thing east after 1910?  Maybe its a mine shaft and not a tunnel and has nothing to do with P&CS?  I still submit those are catenary posts for electric locomotives, and if there is no catenary visible, its probably because it was removed as the whole thing looks pretty abandoned to me - I sure as hell wouldn't want to run a train across those tracks. 
 
Hey, how did the P&CS get the cars through the tunnel (the one we know for sure about - above PRCos tunnel as shown in the map)?  Were they pulled with a rope?  How was the load transfered to the coal incline on the south side?  
Regards
Alex
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: fwschneider at comcast.net
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Sent: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 9:33 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: an unknown Pittsburgh coal haulage trolley line?


But navigate around the map and you will see the P&VS coming up  
Haberman to the Castle Shannon incline Ed.

On Jan 4, 2007, at 8:47 PM, 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.
> The woodcut attached looks a little fancier than the real thing,  
> doesn't it?
> And it distorts the layout, as well.
>
> This site was certainly east of the latter-day Castle Shannon Incline,
> wasn't it?
>
> Ed
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of
> robert netzlof
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 6:56 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: an unknown Pittsburgh coal haulage trolley line?
>
>
>> http://tinyurl.com/spgfx
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> --- "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams2 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> See also (from 1916):
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ukn83
>
> Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob
>
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