[PRCo] Suburban Rapid Transit and South Side remnants

[Derrick Brashear]

Roland St is a short stretch of street running from 15th to 17th just
behind (south of) Carson.
I use it by bike regularly. It seems like there are corrugations in
the street spaced about like ties.

Well, the maps as shown in Report of the Engineers Valuation Board in
re Pittsburgh Railways Company (1919)
( http://www.archive.org/details/reportofengineer00pitt )
show Suburban Rapid Transit's track on that street (but by then abandoned).

Wonder if they really are decaying ties under the pavement.

The thing which may not be obvious: this was part of Suburban Rapid
Transit's extension down the hill
after the Pittsburgh Knoxville and St Clair left them high and dry;
The other system had supplied their
power and their connection to the city, but went out of business. The
route down 18th St was added to
replace it, meaning they expanded into the city, rather than out of it.

-- 
Derrick