[PRCo] Re: Monongahela to Bentleyville

[Edward H. Lybarger]

I've been away during a lot of this discussion and I guess I haven't been
paying close attention when I was here!

There was never a line from Monongahela to Bentleyville...the map is a pure
error.  The line should have been drawn to Charleroi from Bentleyville.
It's that simple!

Ed 

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[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of Paul
Steven
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 7:36 PM
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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=1
5c599171s

>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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