[PRCo] Re: PRC 313A-317-1202 Franchise Car

[Schneider Fred]

Finally had a chance to read this document over an Indian lunch  
today.   At the time the coke "battery" existed, the P&CS only ran  
1.5 miles from somewhere to somewhere.   It could be no farther south  
than McKinley Park.   However, if we assume the tunnel and the long  
curve were part of it, that shortens the south end to just about  
where the Liberty Tubes come out today and makes more sense.

That is a great link to the Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon.  The rest  
of you ought to read it.   Amazing that the railroad had options on  
about 1.89 square miles of land which became the towns of Overbook  
and Castle Shannon.   I wish John Swindler would read it and tell me  
if Linden Grove under a former name was one of those sites that P&CS  
owned.

Now I need to go to the list of Civil War batteries.


On Jan 30, 2009, at 11:23 PM, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Schneider Fred wrote:
>
>> I've been searching old maps and other on-line sources for several
>> hours without success.   Perhaps one of you has the answer to this
>> question:
>>
>> Two locations are involved with the 313A-317-1202 franchise car that
>> make no sense at all to me:
>>
>> One is called "Battery."   This place called Battery was six minutes
>> from the office at South Hills Tunnel by some route.   I have no idea
>> what a battery is.   I've looked on maps for batteries of coke ovens
>> and storage batteries.   I've looked at the 1884 industrial map of
>> Pittsburgh.  Nothing is popping out.
>
> Pittsburgh & Castle Shannon Railroad had 8 coke ovens. Is that a  
> battery?
> Is that "the" battery? I dunno.
>
> http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/pa/pa3400/pa3483/data/pa3483.pdf
>
> I don't know (yet) where they were. One presumes "along the Overbrook
> line"
>
>> The other place is 3rd St. and Washington Road.   Well, guess what,
>> there was no intersection of 3rd Street and Washington Road.
>
> *Old* Hopkins shows Carson St *west* of Smithfield as "Washington
> Turnpike".
>
> Washington Avenue (Warrington) on Sanborns of 1893; No sign of a paper
> street down from Climax.
>
>