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

Donald Galt galtfd at att.net
Sat Jan 6 02:47:11 EST 2007


On 5 Jan 2007 at 7:34, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> Yes they are, Don...they show the NORTH end of the tunnel, and the terminal
> facilities that permitted the coal to be lowered to Carson Street for sale
> and distribution.  That's what the woodcut illustrates.  The map locates
> this for real and the photo shows us how primitive the thing really was.

Okay, somehow I missed this picture. Could somebody please repost the URL? The 
only ones I picked up were those around the Mt.Oliver & Knoxville inclines.

Thanks.

By the way, in all this discussion I haven't seen reference to the fact that in 
the 19th century there were many coal inclines up Coal Hill - the P&CS was only 
one of them.

Don





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