<div dir="ltr">Ahh, they sat on what is now Castleview Road on the west side of the trolley line.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 7:45 AM, D Brashear <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shadow@dementix.org" target="_blank">shadow@dementix.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">There are 37 buildings next to a mine plainly visible here:<br>
<a href="http://data.cei.psu.edu/pennpilot/era1940/allegheny_1938/allegheny_1938_photos_jpg_800/allegheny_051739_aps7264.jpg" target="_blank">http://data.cei.psu.edu/pennpilot/era1940/allegheny_1938/allegheny_1938_photos_jpg_800/allegheny_051739_aps7264.jpg</a><br>
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On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Dwight Long <<a href="mailto:dwightlong@verizon.net">dwightlong@verizon.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Fred<br>
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> P&WV did indeed at one time own the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company.<br>
> However, even though the coal outfit was separately incorporated, there was<br>
> an issue with the Commodities Clause of the Interstate Commerce Act (added<br>
> as part of the Hepburn Act of 1906), and this led to government pressure to<br>
> sell the coal company, which the P&WV did in 1924.<br>
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> Mine 7 was shown as being variously in Horning or Large, Pa., in Jefferson<br>
> Twp. USGS Co-ordinates are given as:<br>
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> 40.3375696 -79.9914409 402015N 0795929W<br>
> Glassport<br>
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> This is in the present day borough of Jefferson Hills. Large is a part of<br>
> Jefferson Hills. This is a few miles southeast of Washington Jct. Mine #7<br>
> was served by the West Side Belt RR, a P&WV subsidiary, at their M.P 18.<br>
> This was about 2 1/2 miles from the point where the West Side crossed over<br>
> the PRR Peters Creek branch.<br>
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> I do not think that the reference is to Mine #7. There were several PTCC<br>
> mines with lower numbers in Castle Shannon or vicinity, however. And I<br>
> seem to recall a stop on the Charleroi line just south of Washington Jct.<br>
> with a mine’s name.<br>
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> Dwight<br>
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> From: Fred Schneider<br>
> Sent: Thursday, 08 May, 2014 16:18<br>
> To: Western PA Trolley discussion<br>
> Subject: [PRCo] Castle Shannon slum???<br>
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> This link leads to an abandoned mining patch story in the Pittsburgh Press<br>
> ("50 Heath Law Violations….") in the postwar period at Castle Shannon.<br>
> Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company sounds like a subsidiary of<br>
> Wabash-Pittsburgh Terminal Railroad, i.e. the Pittsburgh and West Virginia.<br>
> The earlier maps show they did own Mine 7 down at Washington Junction.<br>
> However, I have no clue that it was in Castle Shannon borough in 1947 … it<br>
> was not 40 years earlier.<br>
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> <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mfUaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=40wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3890%2C1953753" target="_blank">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mfUaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=40wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3890%2C1953753</a><br>
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> Anyone knowledgeable enough to tell me what this refers to in todays terms?<br>
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