[PRCo] Re: Monongahela to Bentleyville

[Paul Steven]

Dwight and Edward,

Thank you for such a complete answer. Does this mean the 1918 / 1923 Lewis' 
Guide map which shows the line ending at Monongahela is wrong?

The Charleroi interurban website (which I believe was written by a list member 
- thank you) has an extract from a 1927 timetable:

"CONNECTIONS: Charleroi cars make connections at Monessen Junction for 
Monessen, Belle Vernon and Fayette City (to the east).  At Fifth St., 
Charleroi, with cars for Ellsworth and Bentleyville (to the west). "

On Sunday 07 Nov 2010 16:11:38 Dwight Long wrote:
> 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
> 
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