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<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic">Fred</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic">I love the part about Mitchell helping to make
West Penn one of the most modern transportation companies in the
country!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic">I think Federal pre-emption of local ordnances
came as a result of lots of similar things to the McKeesport
fiasco.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic">Dwight</FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=fwschneider@comcast.net href="mailto:fwschneider@comcast.net">Fred
Schneider</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org
href="mailto:pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org">Western PA Trolley
discussion</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, May 19, 2014 8:07 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [PRCo] Reading - Pgh. Press -
March 1 thru 9.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>The Pittsburgh and West Virginia Terminal fire .. look in March
22, 1946. The fire happened over night Mar.
21-22.<BR><BR>Philadelphia Company wins delay<BR><BR> <A
href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=E1MbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3000%2C15764">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=E1MbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3000%2C15764</A><BR><BR>No
page forward to page two, same edition. Bottom of column
one. Look at that picture at the bottom of the first column
of<BR>the clothing department in Albert J. Mannsmann's department store in
East Liberty. Hard to believe a neighborhood department store when
we don't even have them downtown in our cities any longer.<BR><BR>The next
link is two columns over to the right … same page. I put this in for Ed
Lybarger. AFL and CIO are battling over who should represent the
employees at Champion Stores, the company store for Pittsburgh Consolidation
Coal Company. So when "I owe my soul to the company store" and it
is shut down and I have no money, do I starve? Or do I stick my
shot gun in someone's face to get money to eat? <BR><BR> <A
href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=E1MbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3639%2C25910">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=E1MbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3639%2C25910</A><BR><BR>
<A
href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FlMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2188%2C938893">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FlMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2188%2C938893</A><BR><BR>It
is hard to believe how primitive aviation was back then. This is
also for Ed but the rest of you might get a kick out of "Moon Township Airport
Due to Get Funds." <BR><BR> <A
href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=E1MbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3707%2C83272">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=E1MbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3707%2C83272</A><BR><BR>Personnel
action at Pittsburgh Railways<BR><BR> <A
href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=E1MbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3707%2C8327">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=E1MbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3707%2C8327</A><BR><BR>We
won't give up harassing the power company<BR><BR> <A
href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FFMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1579%2C291182">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FFMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1579%2C291182</A><BR><BR>The
Pittsburgh, Shawmut and Northern Railway was sold in March for 1.5 million
dollars. Doesn't say so here but the last trains ran about 27 days
later.<BR><BR> <A
href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FVMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3055%2C650711">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FVMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3055%2C650711</A><BR><BR>
<A
href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FlMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2557%2C905732">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FlMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2557%2C905732</A><BR><BR>
<A
href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GVMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1940%2C2206355">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GVMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1940%2C2206355</A><BR><BR>Pittsburgh
Railways unhappy that Montour Bus Company wants to serve Spring
Hill<BR><BR> <A
href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FlMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2136%2C940320">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FlMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2136%2C940320</A><BR><BR>This
link is about eight hurt on a Greensburg-Blairsville bus when an oil truck
slid into it on the Lincoln Highway west of Latrobe. But the story
to it's right is a real winner too.<BR><BR> <A
href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FlMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5161%2C1032106">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FlMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5161%2C1032106</A><BR><BR>Baldwin
Locomotive Company shut down temporarily because they could not get
steel. There were peripheral stories that I did not send about
coal strikes and a lack of gas that also affected steel mills. The
second link comes a few days later when the United Mine Workers and John L.
Lewis lost in the Supreme Court for breaching a contract with the
government. The entire page of the paper in the third link
gives some idea about what was going on in the coal fields in
1947.<BR><BR> <A
href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FlMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1546%2C1062045">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FlMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1546%2C1062045</A><BR><BR>
<A
href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GFMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5426%2C1466133">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GFMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5426%2C1466133</A><BR><BR>
<A
href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GVMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1945%2C2013973">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GVMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1945%2C2013973</A><BR><BR>This
guy must have loved his work. H. L. Mitchell of West Penn achieves
45 years in harness.<BR><BR> <A
href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FlMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5121%2C1062595">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FlMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5121%2C1062595</A><BR><BR>Philadelphia
Company's hearing is recessed<BR><BR> <A
href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=F1MbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5770%2C1287583">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=F1MbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5770%2C1287583</A><BR><BR>Same
old - same old. I love this. They had clean coal back
in 1947 except that they were unable to find it. Coal industry
accused of attempting to sabotage Pittsburgh's smoke control
program. I find the whole thing rather amusing. This is the
only item I have posted so far but the papers have been filled with
it. One of the better items prior to this was an editorial cartoon
showing Harrisburg aiming a canon at Pittsburgh's attempts to clean up the
city because the coal companies were buying the
legislators.<BR><BR> <A
href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=F1MbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6205%2C1324122">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=F1MbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6205%2C1324122</A>
<BR><BR>Sounds like this chap employed the law firm of Dewey, Cheetum and Howe
to sue Pittsburgh Railways. <BR>
<BR> <A
href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GFMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2250%2C1494659">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GFMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2250%2C1494659</A><BR><BR>Fantastic
article about all the rules McKeesport inflicted on the B&O. I
can only wonder when the ICC or the FRA told the city to go pound
sand. I know of similar cases where cities were told that they had
no control over railroads.<BR><BR> <A
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