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<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic">Derrick</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic">I believe Wayne Cole has written about the last
mentioned.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic">Dwight</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=shadow@dementix.org href="mailto:shadow@dementix.org">Derrick
Brashear</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, November 11, 2013 11:56
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [PRCo] Something completely
different</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><A
href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Rs5CAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA555&lpg=PA555&dq=Monongahela+North+Shore+Railroad&source=bl&ots=8kjAg4jioM&sig=NCqda632SlRczMOvfnB1rXbIfWI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=PbKBUszHBve54AOHqYCwAQ&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Monongahela%20North%20Shore%20Railroad&f=false">http://books.google.com/books?id=Rs5CAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA555&lpg=PA555&dq=Monongahela+North+Shore+Railroad&source=bl&ots=8kjAg4jioM&sig=NCqda632SlRczMOvfnB1rXbIfWI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=PbKBUszHBve54AOHqYCwAQ&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Monongahela%20North%20Shore%20Railroad&f=false</A><BR><BR>looks
like the only railroad.<BR><A
href="http://books.google.com/books?id=5S0xAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=%22North+Shore+Railroad%22+baltimore+ohio+braddock&source=bl&ots=mqvZCR4d4-&sig=_36Z1ZMSkS8Uqg0PKzP3Q14siRE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qLSBUoLqJqf84AO_goBY&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22North%20Shore%20Railroad%22%20baltimore%20ohio%20braddock&f=false">http://books.google.com/books?id=5S0xAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=%22North+Shore+Railroad%22+baltimore+ohio+braddock&source=bl&ots=mqvZCR4d4-&sig=_36Z1ZMSkS8Uqg0PKzP3Q14siRE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qLSBUoLqJqf84AO_goBY&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22North%20Shore%20Railroad%22%20baltimore%20ohio%20braddock&f=false</A><BR><BR>suggests
it connected the panhandle to the prr main, which means it was<BR>never
built.<BR><BR><A
href="http://archive.org/stream/reportofpennsylv1908penn/reportofpennsylv1908penn_djvu.txt">http://archive.org/stream/reportofpennsylv1908penn/reportofpennsylv1908penn_djvu.txt</A><BR>is
the thing which ran from rochester to conway then inland, which i bet
is<BR>the one you found in receivership.<BR><BR><BR><BR>On Mon, Nov 11, 2013
at 1:58 PM, Robert Netzlof <<A
href="mailto:rnetzlof@gmail.com">rnetzlof@gmail.com</A>> wrote:<BR><BR>>
Last night I was looking at the Hopkins Real Estate Plats for<BR>>
Braddock/Rankin (Volume 8, plate 7) and got a surprise.<BR>><BR>> There
are two rather large plots running more or less parallel to the<BR>>
Monogahela, lying between the B&O and PRR, marked North Shore
Railroad<BR>> Company. Prowling about with Google turned up a court case
(in<BR>> Lawrence County) involving the North Shore's receivership, and
a<BR>> Pittsburgh ordinance regarding the Monongahela North Shore
Railroad's<BR>> rights to run along Second Avenue (more or less) to connect
to "the<BR>> railroad tracks now on Try Street".<BR>><BR>> All this
has me baffled. The only North Shore Railroad I had known of<BR>> is the
one over by Williamsport. The one referenced above seems to<BR>> have come
into being around 1885. The Hopkins plats are from 1915.<BR>> That there
was court action in Lawrence County suggests that the North<BR>> Shore RR
was rather more grand than "Braddock to Try Street", but<BR>> perhaps the
Monogahela North Shore and the North Shore were two<BR>> different
entities.<BR>><BR>> Perhaps Monogahela NS RR was a street car line, the
NS RR a steam<BR>> railroad? Or the other way 'round?<BR>><BR>> Has
anyone here heard of either of those companies? If so, what have
you<BR>> heard?<BR>><BR>> --<BR>> Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old
Bob<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>>
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