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

[Schneider Fred]

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.

The other place is 3rd St. and Washington Road.   Well, guess what,  
there was no intersection of 3rd Street and Washington Road.    
Perhaps someone was extrapolating.   If we extend 3rd Street down on  
the South Side up over the mountain and down to Washington Road, the  
closest interesection is Washington (Warrington) and Beltzhoover.    
Another possibility ... the far west end of Climax Street (that used  
to be part of the 49 line) was called 3rd St., later renamed Paul  
St., still later renamed Climax.   If you were to extend it in an  
imaginary line, it would touch Washington Road or Warrington down  
near where the cars entered the yard at the lower end.   That makes  
limited sense because they were going to Bell House too on the same  
franchise car, so why would you run to the tunnel office and back  
half way?   It probably means Beltzhoover.

If someone out there has any thoughts, please let me know.

By the way, we discussed on the list that the Brookline via South  
Bank service ended in 1910.   That was the regular scheduled car.    
They still ran a franchise car at least until February 24, 1921,  
which ran from Brookline out to the interurban and back to Brookline  
in the morning, then in West Liberty Avenue.  After lunch it made one  
trip to Brookline over the interuban and back.