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

[Edward H. Lybarger]

This link didn't work because it was broken in two, but I went back to the
original message.  Yes, it appears that that was a mine portal. 

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J Brashear
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 12:21 AM
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Subject: [PRCo] Re: an unknown Pittsburgh coal haulage trolley line?

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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