[PRCo] Re: Monongahela to Bentleyville

[Dwight Long]

Paul

I think Ed answered this earlier.  It is my impression that it did not go further than Arnold City, although they had a charter to go all the way to Uniontown!

Dwight

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paul Steven 
  To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org 
  Sent: Monday, 08 November, 2010 18:30
  Subject: [PRCo] Re: Monongahela to Bentleyville


  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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