[PRCo] Re: carhouses & connections

[Fred W. Schneider III]

West Side and WMBV at FC quit about 1933.  Tom has the clippings.  The
WMBV&FC used trackage rights over Pittsburgh Railways from their carbarn
up to the Monessen Bridge.  I think PRC also did any "heavy" overhaul
work.  The carbarn was apparently still owned by the company as late as
1939 or 1940 when the six steel cars were pulled out for shipment to
Lehigh Valley Transit Co. (and immediate resale to Norfolk Va.). They
did also operate a bus service but I never researched the until when
aspect.  In the 1970s and 1980s the state was using the old carbarn as a
Job Center and Unemployment Claims office.  But what comes around goes
around.  Last time I looked, Mid-Mon Valley Transit Authority has
converted it back to a bus garage. 

Jim Holland wrote:
> 
> >> On 1 May 01, at 13:03, Jim Holland wrote:
> 
> >>  To be a little more precise:::::::
> 
> >>   Butler over East Street
> >>   Butler over Etna
> >>   WP at Trafford
> >>   WP and 94-line.
> >>   WP in McKeesport
> 
> > Donald Galt wrote:
> 
> > How about Westside Electric at Charleroi? Didn't that involve a
> > physical crossing of the two systems?
> 
>         Tom Phillips says::  Webster, Monessen, Belle Vernon and Fayette City
> Street Railway Co.  Were they still running in 1920??  Guess they were,
> come to think of it.  I remember reading a first-person-perspective
> written by Tom when he lived near the Charleroi line and he mentioned
> that they were still operating - and he wasn't even a gleam in anyone's
> eye in 1920!!
> 
> > And isn't it rather strange that there was never a connection
> > between Sewickley and the Beaver Valley system?
> 
>         I've had similar musings.  Think that was an  *intent*  in the very
> early days, but one without follow-thru!!
> 
>         What about the 13-Emsworth line?  Didn't that used to have some kind of
> interurban connection??  The PRMA map shows a previous extension to
> Dixmont.
> 
> --
> James B. Holland
> 
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