[PRCo] Re: Will wonders never cease?

[John Swindler]

The carbarn still exists.  The north end is used by the Mid Mon Valley Transit Authority for admin offices and transit center.  
 
4-5 years ago dropped some senior citizen brochures and identification cards off at the MMVTA office.  They mentioned that their office was the old carbarn.  So I asked "which one?"  I got the deer in the headlight look - they didn't realize that there were two streetcar barns in Charleroi.
 
MMVTA subcontracts with First Transit for operations and maintenance.  PTM has a streetcar from a First Transit predecessor company.  (it's a stretch, but best I can do for a trivia question).  
 
Cheers
John   
 
 
 

 

> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Will wonders never cease?
> From: fwschneider at comcast.net
> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:26:29 -0500
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
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> Webster, Monessen, Belle Vernon and Fayette City. It shared carbarn and officers with Westside. In 1926 they both bought three identical Kuhlman lightweight cars. For all intents, the two companies were one and the same. The both quit in 1933 and their six newer cars found their way to Allentown, PA after about five years sitting idle in the barn in Charleroi. Lehigh Valley Transit then changed its mind about spending the money to regauge them and sold them instead to Virginia Electric and Power. VE&P had a dual gauge operation in Norfolk ... South Norfolk was broad gauge. I think the line through to the Naval Base might also have been wide gauge. I don't remember all the numbers in Norfolk but 703 was of the Charleroi cars. 
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> On Dec 21, 2011, at 8:39 PM, Phillip Clark Campbell wrote:
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> > Monessen belle vernon webster and east bumf*ck. I don't remember but it's something ludicrous 
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