[PRCo] Re: 'maybe' not East McKeesport

[robert netzlof]

--- On Sat, 11/26/11, Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net>
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: 'maybe' not East McKeesport
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
> Date: Saturday, November 26, 2011, 11:25 AM
> What about the Lincoln Highway in the
> Loyalhanna gorge through Chestnut
> Ridge, with the Ligonier Valley RR adjacent?

As Derrick said, how to explain the electric line?

Further, the Ligonier Valley was single track through the gorge and the road was on the opposite side of the creek from the railroad. I think the Loyalhanna is out of the question.

I'm leaning toward someplace well east of McKeesport, like east of Altoona. The patch of jumbled rocks on the hillside is characteristic of several of the ridges east of Altoona. (Note that the Girl Scout council in Blair County is the Talus Rock Council.) However, I'm at a loss to think of a place with railroad, street car line, and road all jammed together at the foot of such a ridge.

I am intrigued by what some one called cables running up the side of the ridge. To my eye, it looked like track, perhaps for a skip to carry stone from up on the talus heap to cars on a siding at the bottom.
 
Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob