[PRCo] Re: Smithfield // Water

Jim Holland PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com
Thu Sep 6 16:14:03 EDT 2007


 > Mark wrote:
.
 > Perhaps the crossing at Water and Smithfield was
 > used for East End cars dropping passengers at the
 > B&O Station located there. From there, a turn onto
 > Grant ala the interurbans and then onto 2nd, 6th, etc.
 > Would be interesting to see if there are indeed
 > turnoffs from Grant to these streets to confirm my hypothesis.
.
Even More - an X-Over is needed to get onto the right track - a car 
heading east on Water crossing Smithfield would be head to head with 
outbound cars from Grant.     The other maps I viewed do not show an 
X-Over on Water nor on Grant.
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