<div dir="ltr">he has. i have the book somewhere around here. he sorely needs an editor, but the information is there.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Dwight Long <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dwightlong@verizon.net" target="_blank">dwightlong@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Derrick<br>
<br>
I believe Wayne Cole has written about the last mentioned.<br>
<br>
Dwight<br>
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From: Derrick Brashear<br>
To: Western PA Trolley discussion<br>
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 11:56 PM<br>
Subject: Re: [PRCo] Something completely different<br>
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<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" target="_blank">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>
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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" target="_blank">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>
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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" target="_blank">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>
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On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Robert Netzlof <<a href="mailto:rnetzlof@gmail.com">rnetzlof@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> 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>
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