[PRCo] Re: Black Diamond Mine

[Fred Schneider]

I think you just pushed Ed Lybarge's buttons!   Off what topic?    
Trolleys existed to serve people.   If it were not for people, and  
their amusement and and retail venues and places of work, there would  
have been no Pittsburgh Railways or West Penn Railways or Butler  
Short Line or any other trolley or interurban lines.   The mines in  
western Pennsylvania are very much on subject.

You probably do not realize how much they are on topic until you plot  
the mines in Fayette County and find that all of the older mines and  
mine patches just happen to lie next to the West Penn Railways car  
lines.   Those places called Orient and Whitney and Republic and  
Hecla and Standard and so forth ad infinitum on the West Penn were  
mines and coke ovens.

On Aug 17, 2007, at 10:42 AM, Lattner, Raymond wrote:

> I know we moved off this topic. But I was trying to determine how  
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> the interurban line came to this mine. I found some Mine info at the
> Penn State Digital Web site. See attached photos. Labeled number 67 on
> map. Location river mile point 32.75  Looks like PRCo may have run  
> under
> the lead track to this tipple?
> Ray
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