[PRCo] Re: Donora fares and Street Car Power Supply

[Fred Schneider]

West Penn Power Company supplied the south end of the system.    
Duquesne Light Company (which was part of the railways family the  
main portion).   I only remember one strike in the late 1940s.    
Homes were not affected but industrial users were.   Tylerdale and  
Canonsburg substations on the Washington line were fed by West  
Penn.     Ed will have to tell you where the Charleroi subs were ...  
my suspicion was that the one at Riverview was the northern most West  
Penn sub.   The entire network was hot but going beyond the breaker  
there would have drawn power from Duquesne Light.


On Oct 3, 2005, at 2:08 PM, <mtoytrain at bellsouth.net>  
<mtoytrain at bellsouth.net> wrote:

>
> Ed thanks for update on Donora fares, but another question to our  
> brilliant trolley minds on thhe operation of trolleys in the  
> Greater Pittsburgh area.
>
> Seeing pictures and on one or two street car videos, mention "power  
> company" strikes, most
> notable was when the service on the Pgh / Charleroi interurban line  
> was interrupted by a strike, the
> service was maintained from Roscoe/Elco to the Riverview Loop where  
> the Charleroi cars shared the loop with the Donora cars.    Did  
> this happen often?    What power companies where involved.
> and to my "desiring to know" mind.   Where wasthe power actually   
> supplied?  for example on the Donora line, where actually was the  
> power supplied to the trolley lines?
>
> As Mark Mcguire my buddy said there are no stupid questions just  
> questions to increase our knowledge of something we love to get a  
> better understanding about.
>
> Special thanks to you Ed, Fred, Derric, Boris, Jim.  and of course  
> Mark who got me once again totally involved with this grand and  
> historic past of the PRC.
>
> Jerry M
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