<div dir="ltr">Yes, I was going to mention that the area would be hidden from Library Road by the railroad.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Edward H. Lybarger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:trams2@comcast.net" target="_blank">trams2@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">And behind the P&WV embankment.<br>
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From: <a href="mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounces@mailman.dementix.org">pittsburgh-railways-bounces@mailman.dementix.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounces@mailman.dementix.org">pittsburgh-railways-bounces@mailman.dementix.org</a>] On Behalf Of Herb Brannon<br>
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To: Western PA Trolley discussion<br>
</div><div><div class="h5">Subject: Re: [PRCo] Castle Shannon slum???<br>
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Ahh, they sat on what is now Castleview Road on the west side of the trolley line.<br>
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On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 7:45 AM, D Brashear <<a href="mailto:shadow@dementix.org">shadow@dementix.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> There are 37 buildings next to a mine plainly visible here:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://data.cei.psu.edu/pennpilot/era1940/allegheny_1938/allegheny_193" target="_blank">http://data.cei.psu.edu/pennpilot/era1940/allegheny_1938/allegheny_193</a><br>
> 8_photos_jpg_800/allegheny_051739_aps7264.jpg<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>><br>
> wrote:<br>
><br>
> ><br>
> > Fred<br>
> ><br>
> > P&WV did indeed at one time own the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company.<br>
> > However, even though the coal outfit was separately incorporated,<br>
> > there<br>
> was<br>
> > an issue with the Commodities Clause of the Interstate Commerce Act<br>
> (added<br>
> > as part of the Hepburn Act of 1906), and this led to government<br>
> > pressure<br>
> to<br>
> > sell the coal company, which the P&WV did in 1924.<br>
> ><br>
> > Mine 7 was shown as being variously in Horning or Large, Pa., in<br>
> Jefferson<br>
> > Twp. USGS Co-ordinates are given as:<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > 40.3375696 -79.9914409 402015N 0795929W<br>
> > Glassport<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > This is in the present day borough of Jefferson Hills. Large is a<br>
> > part<br>
> of<br>
> > Jefferson Hills. This is a few miles southeast of Washington Jct.<br>
> > Mine<br>
> #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<br>
> > crossed<br>
> over<br>
> > the PRR Peters Creek branch.<br>
> ><br>
> > I do not think that the reference is to Mine #7. There were several<br>
> > PTCC mines with lower numbers in Castle Shannon or vicinity,<br>
> > however. And I seem to recall a stop on the Charleroi line just south of Washington Jct.<br>
> > with a mine s name.<br>
> ><br>
> > Dwight<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > From: Fred Schneider<br>
> > Sent: Thursday, 08 May, 2014 16:18<br>
> > To: Western PA Trolley discussion<br>
> > Subject: [PRCo] Castle Shannon slum???<br>
> ><br>
> > This link leads to an abandoned mining patch story in the Pittsburgh<br>
> 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<br>
> 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<br>
> > 1947<br>
> it<br>
> > was not 40 years earlier.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mfUaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=40wEAAAAIBAJ&pg" target="_blank">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mfUaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=40wEAAAAIBAJ&pg</a><br>
> =3890%2C1953753<br>
> ><br>
> > Anyone knowledgeable enough to tell me what this refers to in todays<br>
> terms?<br>
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