[PRCo] Re: Black Diamond Mine

[robert simpson]

Hope this isn't "off-topic"
   
  Thanks for the links.  
   
  I can remember an interurban line which dead-ended in Brownsville - but never had the opportunity to ride it.  As I recall, it went through Republic and onward to Uniontown.  Seems it "broke loose" at least once and ran into one of the retail establishments on Market Street in Brownsville.  These were double ended cars and the operator took the control lever to the opposite end of the coach, switch the trolly contacts, and go in reverse.
   
  The history is fascinating.
   
  I can't get the links to work.  I tried using "copy & paste" but had no success.
   
  Have you ever tried  http://tinyurl.com/  to shorten the links?  No, I have absolutely no vested interested in this company.  I would forward this to the Group but I do not know how.  Maybe this reply is to the Group but not sure.
   
  Bob
   
  
Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:
  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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