[PRCo] Re: an unknown Pittsburgh coal haulage trolley line?

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> Fortunately, we have a set of those plat books in the PTM Library.  Volume
> 6, Plate 5 West (left) shows BOTH portals of the P&CSRR tunnels.  The tunnel
> itself is basically on a north-south axis, and emerged slightly west of the
> latter-day Castle Shannon Incline.  I've attached a photo from 1910 showing
> both the coal incline and the passenger/freight incline operating
> simultaneously, plus a better copy of that woodcut showing the face of Mt.
> Washington with all the P&CSRR's facilities.

So the structure at the left in the center of this picture is a mine?

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