[PRCo] Re: New Collection

[Fred Schneider]

Certainly.   I don't have the dates where I can get at them.   West  
Penn operated it jointly with Pittsburgh Railways until they decided  
there was no practicality of join service.    Might have been in the  
1920s that WP pulled out but my brain could easily be addled.   I  
know the trackage from this intersection all the way into McKeesport  
was owned and maintained by West Penn until it was absolutely clear  
that they were getting out of the railway business and then they sold  
it to Pittsburgh Railways.   If memory serves, the transfer might  
have been about 1950 or 1951.     There is a picture that EHL found  
in the late 1930s of a track welder and a West Penn truck on the  
bridge over the Monongahela River in McKeesport.   I think we might  
have even used it in the display of occupations in the transit  
industry at PTM about ten years ago.

There might also have been transfer reciprocity between the two  
companies in McKeeport involving this line and other West Penn lines  
between 1920 and 1937.   Ed would know.

On Oct 4, 2007, at 1:10 PM, Barry, Matthew R wrote:

> There are several photos taken on Sept. 21, 1958 in Duquesne.   So,  
> apparently there was some former West Penn Railways trackage in  
> Duquesne that was kept operable for Pittsburgh Railways?
> See photo here and here is description:
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> Title: Pittsburgh Railways - 1958, A Trip Around The City of  
> Pittsburgh XI
> Date: September 21, 1958
> Creator: Fairbanks Jr., Frank B.
> Description: Pittsburgh Railways. Car 1450. Rt. 68 in Duquesne.  
> Former West Penn tracks to Duquesne Station at left.
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