[PRCo] Re: [PRCo]Special Thank You

[Jerry MATT Matsick]

A Special Thank you to Fred!
Don't know about the rest of you, but this ole fart in Florida has and is enjoying all the research
energy put out by Fred,  I get my PRCo map out and city maps of the burgh and enjoy tracing
and retracing all the info Fred relays to us.   Thanks FRED!   By the way The Cardinals are going
to Freez their behinds off as Florida is turning into Pittsburgh weather, down in the 20s tonight and
even FREEZE warnings for Tampa.   Go Steelers!
--
From: Jerry "Matt" Matsick "PHD" 
AGING: Eventually you will reach a point when you 
stop lying about your age and start Bragging 
about it.

-------------- Original message from Schneider Fred <fwschneider at comcast.net>: -------------- 


> 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. 
>