[PRCo] Re: Monongahela to Bentleyville

[Dwight Long]

Paul

This was the West Side Electric Street Railway Co., which ran from Charleroi to Bentleyville. It was abandoned in 1933.  Its most modern cars were eventually sold to Lehigh Valley Transit and shipped there, but never used (there was a gauge issue) and eventually resold to Norfolk, Va., where they ran until after WW II.  Their car house was in Charleroi on Fallowfield Ave. and in pictures taken from the hill on which Pittsburgh Rys descended into Charleroi from the north, both it and the PRC car house (to the left in these fots) can be seen. Its sister company, with which it shared the car house and cars was the Webster, Monessen, Belle Vernon & Fayette City Street Railway, which operated from Charleroi over PRC trackage rights to the Monessen Bridge, thence over it to Monessen.  It was bustituted at the same time as the West Side.

Dwight Long
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paul Steven 
  To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org 
  Sent: Friday, 05 November, 2010 18:36
  Subject: [PRCo] Monongahela to Bentleyville


  The Media Curator of the Archives Service Center, School of Information 
  Science, University of Pittsburgh was kind enough to send me a link to their 
  electronic copy of Lewis' Guide (1923) after I suggested a correction to one 
  of their captions.
  http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-
  idx?c=pitttextdir;cc=pitttextdir;g=pitttextall;xc=1;q1=lewis;view=toc;idno=15c599171s

  From this I extracted the Electric Railways map (which I know you have 
  already, I think I have seen it on this list) and from which I have extracted 
  the area of Monongahela / Bentleyville. I'm assuming this was an electric line 
  which was closed before 1952 as it isn't mentioned in the ERA publication on 
  the Pittsburgh Interurban routes, but unlike the Harmony Line I can't find any 
  online information about this route. Does anyone have a history of this line 
  and / or a reference to its operation?

  This site http://monongahela.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/easy-bicycle-route-from-
  monongahela-to-bentleyville-pa/ has details of a bike ride along the valley, 
  but doesn't mention a trolley route.

  Thanks
  -- 
  Paul Steven


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