Elevated Rail. Think about a world where downtown is still full of manufacturing, the density of the city starts to trail off into suburbs in Oakland and Lawrenceville, and there is no such thing as interstate trucking...
There were several different railroads running elevated and at grade to multiple train stations (Pennsylvania, B&O, Penn Central, and this line served the Wabash Terminal on Stanwix)...
Totally different world.
I was also looking at the new years edition of the 1911 Pgh Press recently and listed fatalities of the previous year which included hundreds of railroad, more than 100 traction (streetcar), even a couple dozen elevator fatalities! It was pretty amazing... less homicides though.
Evans Alley ran parallel to Stanwix one block west
So was that a Robert Moses style elevated highway or just a rail line?
Elevated Rail. Think about a world where downtown is still full of manufacturing, the density of the city starts to trail off into suburbs in Oakland and Lawrenceville, and there is no such thing as interstate trucking...
There were several different railroads running elevated and at grade to multiple train stations (Pennsylvania, B&O, Penn Central, and this line served the Wabash Terminal on Stanwix)...
Totally different world.
I was also looking at the new years edition of the 1911 Pgh Press recently and listed fatalities of the previous year which included hundreds of railroad, more than 100 traction (streetcar), even a couple dozen elevator fatalities! It was pretty amazing... less homicides though.