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

[Derrick J Brashear]

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.