[PRCo] an unknown Pittsburgh coal haulage trolley line?: my final word (or maybe not)

[Donald Galt]

Okay, I finally discovered the woodcut - hours before Ed posted it in higher 
resolution. It turns out to be the same picture that I mentioned earlier 
Saturday as taken from "Fleming's Views of Old Pittsburgh" and reprinted in 
Samuel R Ohler's "Pittsburgh's Inclines" (1971).  

The station that I thought might be P&LE turns out to be that of the P&CS 
itself (Duh!).

If you look to the right of the upper station boldly lettered "Pittsburg Castle 
Shannon RAIL ROAD" you will see the north tunnel portal, complete with lining 
and possibly with wisps of smoke and/or light at the far end.

Now, as to Alex's picture with the shed lettered "Coal Yard", this one 
definitely looks up to the top station of the Knoxville Incline. The bend in 
the foreground is the one in Brosville Street (__ngham St.) just west of the 
words "narrow gauge" on his map. The coal facility is that identified as 
"Pitts. Coal Co. of Pa." whose own incline is just west of the Mount Oliver. 
Ohler refers to this incline as "Keeling Coal", which I've assumed to be a 
mistake since Joseph Keeling had an incline farther east, rising from 21st 
Street. But those lots along St. Martin St. marked "Margaret Keeling" make me 
doubt my doubts.

In any case, as I stated a while back, this was only one of the many coal 
operations and inclines that riddled this and other hillsides in the Pittsburgh 
area. We remember the passenger inclines, but the coal ones were there first.

Don G