[PRCo] Re: Tracks in a dirt street

[ROBERT R ROCKWELL]

In the early days when this was taken , Phil, Westside Transit was a separate company from the Pgh Co, probably a predecessor of PRys then. Both lines shared the Pgh double track through North Charleroi..After the Charleroi-Monessen Bridge opened about 1906, the Westside cars turned off Pgh tracks at "Monessen Junction" and crossed the bridge to Monessen. Pgh Rwys did operate Westside from 1926 to the end 1933. 

 

 
Robert Rockwell w3syt1 at msn.com


 
> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:23:05 -0800
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> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Tracks in a dirt street
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> CC: w3syt1 at msn.com
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> > From: ROBERT R ROCKWELL <w3syt1 at msn.com>
> > To: pittsburgh-railways <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
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> > Sent: Tue, January 12, 2010 10:42:22 AM
> > Subject: [PRCo] Tracks in a dirt street
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> > This has to be a pix of Westside tracks just South of the
> > juncture of Westside and Pgh rwys or predecessor.
> > This is the only place in Charleroi where the trolley
> > tracks (either line) were built off center in a street.
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> > They must have used some sort of snow broom device to
> > clean the girder rail. Note the dirt near the horse's foot. ??
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> Robert Rockwell
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> http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/Westside%20Dr%20Smith0001.bmp
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> Mr.Rockwell;
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> I haven't heard of girder rail cleaning before; of course,
> this is all it means isn't it -- I haven't heard of it. Regular
> operation would keep the rails clean; if something too
> large is on the track it is the duty of the motorman to
> move it. The marks we see are probably from wagon
> wheels. These marks are well outside the track as
> well aren't they.
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> Railways did wash or flush streets according to pg.100
> in Middleton's Time of the Trolley.
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> From your description this would seem to be Lincoln
> Avenue in Charleroi. What is know of the other individual
> companies absorbed into Prc? Were their lines rebuilt
> or relocated?
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> Phil
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