[PRCo] Re: West Penn Railways Fare Zones

[prcopcc at p-r-co.com]

> Fred Schneider writes:
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> The loop used by route 94 cars in Aspinwall was West Penn track. 
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> There is a picture that Ed Miller took .. .. At any rate, Ed's picture  
> shows a PRC route 68 car laying over in McKeesport with a black car  
> stop sign with white letters hanging on the span wire overhead.    
> Guess what guys...   That was a West Penn sign.
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I have a photo somewhere of a WP  *-Valley--Line-*  Cincy curved sider with 
an PRCo low floor in Aspinwall.
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Wasn't the 68-line between McKeesport and Kennywood WP trackage, at least in 
part?       That may have been the trackage that was renewed.       Maybe 
the WP book mentions something about this  --  Beals book.
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> .......       West Penn Power  
> Company provided electricity to run the outer ends of the interurban  
> lines.   In a postwar labor dispute at Duquesne, PRC shut down all  
> its trolley lines except for those fed from West Penn.  The  
> Washington city lines and the interurban from Washington to  
> Canonsburg substation wye continued to operate.
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And the Charleroi line ran from Rscoe through Riverview Loop and the Donora 
local cars still continued operation.
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Jim__Holland 

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