[PRCo] Re: Suburban Rapid Transit and South Side remnants

[Edward H. Lybarger]

It doesn't sound like the kind of thoroughfare that would have been rebuilt
by the city, does it?   Those are probably the remains of Suburban's ties.

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Subject: [PRCo] Suburban Rapid Transit and South Side remnants

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.

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Derrick