[PRCo] Re: old maps of Pittsburgh and elsewhere reveal...

Joshua Dunfield joshua.dunfield at gmail.com
Wed Dec 10 16:51:34 EST 2008


2008/12/10 Barry, Matthew R <mrb190 at pitt.edu>:
> A lot more private right of way that I had previously thought.
> Note where the line comes off of Woodlawn Ave, crosses
> Forbes and goes into what is most probably private right of
> way.   It moves on in to areas that I don't think any other
> carline really ever replaced.

I believe Woodlawn (now Margaret Morrison) is shown as having tracks
in at least one of the Carnegie Tech Bulletin maps (in CMU's Hunt
Library, for those of you still in Pittsburgh).  The routing of
anything along what would become the 5800 block of Darlington Road,
where I lived for six years, is new to me.

-j.



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