[PRCo] Re: Maps

[Herb Brannon]

Have you scanned the entire county? I have a wall in my office which would look good in an old map w/ PRCo trackage.
 
Herb Brannon


----- Original Message ----
From: Derrick J Brashear <shadow at dementia.org>
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 6:14:28 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Maps


On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Matt Barry wrote:

> One of you provided the link to this part of the Historic Pittsburgh
> site some weeks back, and I must say, I have been enjoying occasionally
> going into it and clicking on and expanding certain areas of the city,
> as it was decades back.    For instance, I always wondered where in
> Morningside, the Pittsbugh Railways private right of way inbound
> trackage was.  With these maps I was able to discover that it was near
> Standish Street, leading from Chislett to Jancey.
> And I was able to see how the 56 and 55 routes landed off the Glenwood
> Bridge into the Hays section.  How Carson used to meet up with Baldwin
> Road, etc.
>
> Interesting and historic, for sure.

They were scanned at 400dpi, and the copy shop 3 doors from the coffee 
house I often work from will do prints for $3 per.

http://picasaweb.google.com/shadow/PghMap/photo#5020293254118270626