[PRCo] Re: Will wonders never cease?

[Edward H. Lybarger]

10-4.

-----Original Message-----
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org] On Behalf Of Derrick
Brashear
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 11:28 AM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Will wonders never cease?

No map whatsoever was included. I can photograph anything I find as long as
I document what I snapped; photocopies are a quarter per page.

It appears the contract wasn't executed until November; The file has about
10 copies of the contract.

I assume the map stayed with Pittsburgh Steel, if any.

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net>
wrote:
> Is there any map available in this record?  If so, can it be copied or 
> even photographed?
>
> Ed
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org] On Behalf Of 
> Derrick Brashear
> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 10:30 AM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Will wonders never cease?
>
> I have in front of me (I'm at the Pitt Archives) a contract from __ of 
> September 1924 with the Pittsburgh Steel Company and the W,M, BV and 
> FC with regard to relocating their track onto the Steel Company's 
> property because the state highway department wanted their right of 
> way. State Aid Route #143, Section 2, the trolley line to be on the 
> western or river side of the new road. Found in Box 213 of the P&LE
> (document) collection.
>
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Fred Schneider 
> <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> On Dec 21, 2011, at 8:39 PM, Phillip Clark Campbell wrote:
>>
>>> :-D)
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>>> Phil
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>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Derrick Brashear <shadow at gmail.com>
>>> To: "pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org"
>>> <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 8:26 PM
>>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Will wonders never cease?
>>>
>>> Monessen belle vernon webster and east bumf*ck. I don't remember but 
>>> it's something ludicrous
>>>
>>> Derrick
>>>
>>>
>>>
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> --
> Derrick
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Derrick