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

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Joshua Dunfield wrote:

> 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.

I wouldn't overly lend credence to that map being exactly correct. If you 
go back a few years to earlier maps, though, the "proposed" alignments of 
the Pittsburgh and East End and the other one are really wild, though.