[PRCo] Re: New Maps of Pittsburgh and Ellwood City

[Phillip Clark Campbell]

Very interesting Mr.Titchenal.  The map seems to raise more questions than
answers doesn't it.
.
A hand written note in the lower right corner indicates:  "1900."
.
When did the rwy. first use numbers for routes?  This aids the dating
presumably in the teens or twenties.  As so little in route-numbering is
on this map more is needed to make sense of it.
.
I see the 86-88-89-lines along Frankstown, nothing listed for the 88-terminal
as we knew it.  None of those numbers are in Wilkinsburg yet I see the
63-onto Ardmore Blvd where the map ends.  The 63-continues onto
Forbes into downtown.  This helps with dating, but what happened to the
route numbers along Frankstown?
.
Phil





>________________________________
> From: Stephen Titchenal <stephen at titchenal.com>
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org 
>Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 2:13 PM
>Subject: [PRCo] New Maps of Pittsburgh and Ellwood City
> 
>I recently scanned some maps at the Pennsylvania State University Map
>Library including one that shows the Pittsburgh Railways Co. circa 1930.
>
>The map does not have a date, but I based my guess on the following:
>Shows bus routes 16 Castle Shannon, 17 Monitor Street and 18 McKeesport
>begun in the first half of 1930. Does not show bus route 19 Highland Park
>opened in December 1930.
>
>http://www.railsandtrails.com/Maps/Pittsburgh/1930_Interstate/index.html
>
>If you have any additional thoughts as to date, I would appreciate them.
>
>Additional Pittsburgh Maps...
>
>http://www.railsandtrails.com/Maps/Pittsburgh/index.html
>
>
>Also scanned was a 1938 map of Ellwood City that shows the right of way of
>the Harmony Line.
>http://www.railsandtrails.com/Maps/PA%20Cities/index.html
>