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

[Jim Holland]

Six messages at the website from 4 hours ago which haven't come through 
in the mail system as yet  --  this is one of them~!~!~!~!
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I always associated the prw itself as land purchased for use by PRCo  
--  never entertained the thought that the land was actually leased.     
Was the same true of prw in Allegheny County?     Was the prw under PRCo 
// Is the land under  ({[pat]})  leased as well?
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On streets Railways were generally given a franchise to operate  (also 
probably true of prw - need a franchise to establish the business.)   
Would there be some kind of lease agreement for street operation?     
Was part of that lease agreement the fact that the railway had to 
maintain the street within a certain distance of its tracks?
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Many references to Interurbans state that they  ""secured land""  and 
that doesn't necessarily mean purchased!     But guess some could be 
purchased as well.
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 > Ed wrote:
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 > That's what I thought I said in the beginning!
 >But John said it more clearly!

 >>> 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


 >> From: PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com

 > > 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

 >>>> Mark McGuire wrote::

 > >> > Wasn't it $1 for the property?

 > > -- Jim Holland 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?


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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/