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

[Fred Schneider]

And of course you have to discount my hitting the wrong keys ... P&VC  
is really P&CS.

On Jan 5, 2007, at 11:44 AM, aprochek at aol.com wrote:

> well I did a little more noodling around with the maps and in 1916  
> there is no sign of any coal incline near the Castle Shannon  
> incline.  If the P&CS was still running coal trains at night ( I  
> thought I read somewhere it P&CS closed up in 1919), then this  
> thing between the mt oliver and knoxville is the only way they  
> would be able to sell it.  so maybe the whole thing got moved a few  
> blocks from the original placement.
>
> 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-----
>> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
>> [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
>>
>> --- "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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