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

[Jim Holland]

If the property was purchased from PRCo, Why the Lease with Wash County?



Edward H. Lybarger wrote:
> 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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> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of Mark
> McGuire
> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 12:06 AM
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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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