[PRCo] Re: Location for MWP curved-side picture

[Fredbruhn at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/2/2007 11:01:28 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
trams2 at comcast.net writes:
It isn't MWP...it's Wheeling Traction (actually Co-Operative Transit Co.)
33, north of the city on the Warwood line.
Don't mess with Ed when it comes to identifying photos, he is almost always 
right.  And is in this case too.
The Warwood line ran along side W.VA. Route 2 from 1st. Street in North 
Wheeling to the Warwood car barn at the South edge of Warwood.  The sequence was 
east bank of Ohio River, very steep and covered with trees and brush, then the 
highway, the Co-Op right of way, some weeds, then the PRR railroad below the 
trolley, then a further bank down to the river.  The line was double track from 
10th. St. Wheeling to 1st. Street, then single track along the highway with 2 
"switches" or passing tracks to the Warwood  barn.
The line reentered the street at the barn and became double track through 
most of Warwood.  At 22nd.
Street it became single track in the center of the street for a few blocks 
until leaving the town and then pulling off the highway to end just before a 
mine shaft.  It looks like this shot is on the double track portion
which would place it in the "better" residential end of town and where the 
high school was located.  
The destination sign is "5 Warwood" with a small hang sign below that reads 
"22nd. St" the Wheeling destination.
You have been talking about colors at Tylerdale and this print sure doesn't 
show Wheeling's colors very well.  The cars were orange and yellow, with white 
"safety" ends in later years.  However in later years the grime and smoke from 
the valley gave them the same color fading that Pittsburgh had.

The Warwood barn is still standing and in use as a foundry building today.  
It is fairly close to the road.
Portions of the wye at 10th and Main in Wheeling are just starting to pop up 
through the asphalt.  If you know the line, the curve in North Main where the 
line both went from double track to single track and moved off the highway can 
be figured out, and almost the entire line is now a bike trail and can be 
ridden.  I must
do that sometime.
Fred Bruhn