[PRCo] Re: Other survivng car houses

[Fred W. Schneider III]

But the front half of the Latrobe car house was torn down in the last
year.  

robert netzlof wrote:
> 
> As I was driving off to the dread higher elevations
> north of Interstate 80, my real home now, fresh fdrom
> having seen the Oakford Park Car House, I pondered the
> fact that there are four other car barns still
> standing in my part of the Known World.
> 
> 1. Latrobe. Jefferson Street between Spring and
> Chestnut Streets.
> 2. Latrobe. Across Ligonier Street from the Latrobe
> Brewing Co.
> 3. Derry. Just west of the PA 217 bridge over the
> PRR/CR/NS main
> 4. Indiana. Wayne Avenue, just north of and across the
> street from Kovalchik's yard.
> 
> 1 was, I believe, built by the company which built the
> pre-West Penn line from Latrobe to Baggaley, but
> became West Penn with the purchase of that company by
> the power company. Within my lifetime, it was used as
> a garage and storage building by West Penn Power, who
> had a large substation beside it for decades. In the
> '40's the area between the building and the street was
> paved with brick and the rails were still in place in
> that pavement.
> 
> 2 replaced 1. When? I know not. Pre-WW2 certainly. I
> think a part of the building was torn down several
> years ago, as it looks shorter than I remember it. One
> could still see the two tracks into the barn, and the
> siding which ran beside the barn until Latrobe Brewing
> expanded and covered the area in front of the barn
> with stone chips.
> 
> 3 was built by the Westmoreland County Street Railway
> which folded long before I was around, although there
> were places in Latrobe where one could still see their
> rails in the streets. When I first knew of the
> building it was the garage for Chestnut Ridge Bus
> Lines, now also gone.
> 
> 4 was built by the Indiana Street Railway. It
> currently is used by Kovalchik to store salvaged
> electrical equipment and copper.
> 
> Since Indiana is probably getting pretty far afield
> for a 'Burgh-centric group, I'll refrain from
> mentioning the old car barn in DuBois.
> 
> =====
> Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob
> 
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