[PRCo] Re: Monongahela to Bentleyville

[Derrick Brashear]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net> wrote:
> Paul
> As far as I know, the Westside never got any closer to Mon City than the west end of the North Charleroi-Monessen bridge.
>
> There was, and I believe still is, a former PRR, now NS, branch line from Mon City (actually from CP City on NS) to Bentleyville and Ellsworth.  It carries on to Eighty-Four, Pa., and formerly had branches to Ontario, Pa., Cokeburg, and Marianna.  Could it be that this is the line to which you are referring?  I have not seen the map you cite so can't offer much more than that.
>
> If you will send me your direct email address I will send you a copy of a PRR track chart from the 50s which shows the lines in question.  This list will not let me embed or attach anything that resembles a photo.

>From 1939:
http://prr.dementia.org/documents/monongahela_div_tc_1939.pdf
>From 1962:
http://prr.dementia.org/documents/monongahela_division_tc_1962.pdf