78 Oakmont...

[Don Galt]

Can't give the date when the Verona line was cut back to Laketon Road, but
here is an attempted corporate history, from Rorhbeck's "Street Railways of
Pennsylvania:"

Both the Oakmont & Verona Street Railway Company and the Wilkinsburg and
Verona Street Railway Company appear to have been absorbed in 1901 into the
Monongahela Street Railway Company, along with the Wilkinsburg & East
Pittsburgh Street Railway Company (don't ask me why the Monogahela SR Co
had no components close to the Monongahela!) Also in the tangle of early
corporate names are the Oakmont & Wilkinsburg Street Railway Co and the
Oakmont & Wilkinsburg Railway Company, but without dates one can't tell
which followed which.

Monongahela Street Railway Company was leased in 1902 to the first
Pittsburgh Railways Company and finally lost its corporate identity within
the second Pittsburgh Railways Company in 1950.

Remembering that the "Charleroi Interurban" actually went to Roscoe
throughout its existence, I'd hazard a guess that the Verona Line likewise
probably always continued on to Hulton in Oakmont.

Judging from the old topo map, the line entered Verona via the Verona Road
and continued north along today's Allegheny River Boulevard - there was a
different alignment crossing Plum Creek in those days, terminating at or
near Lee Street at the north end of Oakmont.

Don