[PRCo] Re: 2,000-foot section of railway

[Edward H. Lybarger]

The property was leased from Washington County for a dollar a year, a rate
which we still pay, incidentally.  But the railway itself was purchased from
Pittsburgh Railways Company for something like $1600.  There's a copy of the
bill of sale in the Archives.

Ed

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Subject: [PRCo] Re: 2,000-foot section of railway


 Wasn't it $1 for the property?

-- Jim Holland <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com> wrote:
"""In 1953, the group formally organized as a nonprofit corporation.
They purchased a 2,000-foot section of railway line of the Pittsburgh
Railways Company's recently abandoned Washington interurban trolley line
near the Washington County Home in Chartiers Township.  On February 7,
1954, the museum's first three cars were moved to the site."""
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How much did this cost?
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^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^
Jim  Holland
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Studying Pittsburgh Railways Company
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....................From 1930 -- 1950
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Pennsylvania  Trolley  Museum  (PTM)
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http://www.pa-trolley.org/
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N.M.R.A.
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http://www.nmra.org/