Monessen Junction

[EDWARD H. LYBARGER]

Usually I check before I speak (write) but I didn't on the location of
Lockview.  It is indeed about 1/3 mile up Rt. 88 from the point where the
road diverges in what is more correctly North Charleroi, and the
neighborhood (it certainly is not a municipality!) straddles the state
highway.  Sorry for the error; I grew up on the WASHINGTON route!!  The
signal map shows Lockview stop as being before that point where the
northbound double track becomes single to cross the bridges.  There were
stops at each of the bridges, all on the south ends of the viaducts.  But
technically, "East Lockview" would be AFTER #1 Bridge, so Lockview stop
would have been very close to where I first said it was anyway!

I wish I had track & stop info for PRCo like I have for West Penn!

Ed
----- Original Message -----
From: Don Galt <GaltFD at compuserve.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 05, 1999 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: Monessen Junction


> >From Ed Lybarger:
>
> >> Monessen Jct. was where Route 88 and the Monessen Bridge met, and the
> Westside ... tracks went across the river.  Lockview
> was just north of this spot, where the side-of-road r/w diverged from the
> highway (Rt. 88 turns left here, going north) ... the photo of the PRCo
> spray car we published a couple decades back ...  was taken at or very
near
> Lockview! <<
>
> I suppose that Monessen Jct is a no-brainer.
>
> But, then, Lockview station was on the hillside right smack above Old Lock
> 4, and just north of the Lock 4 School. Yet my maps show Lockview itself
> farther up the road (and, undeniably, more remote from the interurban
> line.)
>
> Were there stops at Bridge#1, Bridge#2, Bridge#3? Barring these, I see no
> note of any stations between Lockview and Eldora.
>
> >From Jim Holland:
>
> >> I have an absolutely super photo from John Brinckman <<
>
> Certainly sounds super, from the description.
>
> I have to do my usual weekend fade now, but want soon to pursue the task
of
> locating the Charleroi line exactly. Ed scribbled some notations on my
topo
> map xerox when I saw him in April, but I need to refine all this - for one
> thing, to scan the original map at a larger scale for easier reading.
>
> Your (Jim's) bridge drawings will also figure in the calculations, since
> they can be compared with the contour lines on the map.
>
> All the same, I'll bet that *somewhere* there are maps kicking around, of
> Charleroi, of North Charleroi, of Carroll Township, showing the line
> exactly. If anybody with access to libraries and local government offices
> in the greater Pittsburgh area is interested in this pursuit, I'd be happy
> to outline the searches I've made so far.
>
> Those of you with photographs, of course, are singularly blessed.
>
> The one other picture I took in the neighborhood, besides the one at
> Eldora, is from Birch Street, Lockview, looking south toward town. Not
> wanting to trespass, I made no attempt to walk over to the edge of the
> bluff and look down - seemed a long shot anyway - so the shot shows no
> interurban information at all.
>
> Parting shot: what is the location of the photo on the first page of the
> 1944 INL article by Ira Swett, showing a car just beyond a section of
> double track?
>
> Don
>