[PRCo] Greensburg and North Vandergrift questions

[Stephen Titchenal]

I'm starting to update my route maps for the Pittsburgh Area Interurban
Lines, in advance of visiting the PTM Archive next year.

 

Questions related to Interurban routes:

Greensburg: 

1.       The maps in the CERA West Penn Traction book and the PTM West Penn
Railways booklet are different.  CERA shows a turn on the Otterman line at
Hamilton extending to Ludwick, but the PTM map shows it ending at Hamilton
and Otterman.

2.       The CERA map shows the line on Alexander extending to Weaver before
turning onto Green. The PTM map shows the line on Alexander extending only
to Stanton (misspelled Station?) before turning onto Green.

 

There is a 1949 and 1950 Greensburg Map at Penn State Map Library. Anybody
checked that or another contemporary map to confirm the correct locations?
Or have access to another map of Greensburg from before the abandonment?

 

North Vandergrift:

                The map in Dennis Cramer's Trolleys of Armstrong County
seems to show the line closer to the river than my tracing from the 1938
aerials and digital elevation data. It sure looks like it would have been on
a private right-of-way west of Lincoln Ave until it joined Lincoln Ave (rt
66) around 3rd St and then continued along Lincoln until going back on
private right-of-way east of town but Dennis and Ed must have a reason for
showing the route which I assume follows the alley between Lincoln and
Jefferson?

 

Latrobe:

                The discussion last year on the list and the map Bob Netzlof
drew clears up questions I had, but also shows the Westmorland County Street
Railway that I cannot find any route documentation for.  

 

FYI 

Penn State Library Digital Collection includes a

1920 Lewis' Pittsburgh Street & Trolley Guide

http://collection1.libraries.psu.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/digitalbk
s2/id/15293/rec/3

 

I have attached a spreadsheet with the Suburban lines transcribed. Lewis
gives the Routes a letter/number designation. I am assuming these were
assigned by Lewis rather than as an official designation of the Routes. For
some reason there is no Route B or H. Were these in earlier Lewis guides and
abandoned before 1920?

 

Stephen Titchenal

Stephen at Titchenal.com

railsandtrails.com

 




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