[PRCo] Re: another incline?

[robert netzlof]

--- Derrick J Brashear <shadow at dementia.org> wrote:

> J&L Coal Incline.
> 
> Sparse coverage but there was an incline which started at a tipple
> between 
> 28th and 29th St at Jane St, opposite the old end of the MonConn at
> the 
> PRR Mon Division (then the PV&C) and went up the hill parallel to
> the 
> alignment of 29th st but further west, ending at J&L property at
> Sumner 
> St.

How about:

http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/maps/showmap.pl?client=maps&image=86v01p30&levels=5&originx=5166&originy=3699&lastlevel=1&fullheight=5292&fullwidth=8074&level=1&size=0&image.x=821&image.y=276

Lest that get too garbled for use;

It's from the 1886 Atlas of the Vicinity of the Cities of Pittsburgh
and Allegheny, Plate 30.



Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob



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