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

[Donald Galt]

On 6 Jan 2007 at 16:18, robert netzlof wrote:

> 
> I was interested to note the triangular protrusion on the west side of
> the RoW of the Castle Shannon incline. Much of that triangular area
> houses many irregularities in the contour lines. I suggest that the
> lower end of both inclines were very close together, the RoW for the
> newer incline taking over much of the older RoW at the lower end. 

Nice job pointing things up on the map, Bob.

I've got to get a high-speed connection so that I don't have to think so long 
and hard about downloading stuff like these maps.

I fancy I can also make out some of the route of the branch over toward 
Grandview Avenue. Much of that would have been obliterated by later 
construction, but the atlases of the 1880s show the railway co-existing with 
and crossing Sycamore Street.

As to the old incline r/w being taken over by the new, I rather doubt it. The 
photo Ed posted today shows both the old and new in the same picture, which is 
logical since the old one would have been kept in service until superseded.

I was a little surprised to see the two diverging in the photo, but closer 
examination of the map shows just that.

Don G