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

[Fred Schneider]

You mean we actually paid for ballast to save them from picking up  
the trash?

On Oct 4, 2007, at 8:52 AM, John Swindler wrote:

>
> Could it be that the land is leased from the county, but the rails,  
> ties, line poles, ballast, etc cost $1,600??
>
> John
>
>
>> Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 02:49:19 -0700> From: PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com>  
>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org> Subject: [PRCo] Re: 2,000- 
>> foot section of railway> > 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> >> > -----Original Message----- 
>> > > From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org> >  
>> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of  
>> Mark> > McGuire> > Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 12:06 AM> >  
>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org> > 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.""">  
> > .> > How much did this cost?> > .> > .> > .> >  
> ^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^> > Jim Holland> > .> > Studying Pittsburgh  
> Railways Company> > .> > ....................From 1930 -- 1950>  
> > .> > Pennsylvania Trolley Museum (PTM)> > .> > http://www.pa- 
> trolley.org/> > .> > N.M.R.A.> > .> > http://www.nmra.org/> >
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