[PRCo] Re: A streetcar loops that ends at a gas station

[Derrick Brashear]

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Route 97 was the second of two lines between McKeesport and Wilmerding...and
> the one that put the ancestor-of-West Penn line out of business.  The
> McKeesport, Duquesne & Wilmerding route was circuitous while the one that
> was Route 97 was very direct.
>
> The MD&W line was written up in Street Railway Review in 1894 at page 170.
> It's online for those who would like to read it.  The line closed prior to
> the 1904 consolidation.  I have the date in a news clipping but not here.

http://ia311041.us.archive.org/1/items/streetrailwayrev04amer/streetrailwayrev04amer.pdf