[PRCo] Re: Circa 1908 view of Pittsburgh

[Dwight Long]

Bob

Customers of what?  The Wabash Pittsburg Terminal Ry?

AIR, there was no convenient unloading point on this line for PRC to receive any carload shipments.  There was one at Millvale and that is where most if not all carload deliveries, including new trams, were received by PRC, but that did not help the WPT at all.  

One of the failures of Gould’s scheme was lack of access to most industries in Pittsburg(h). About the only significant access they had was through the Union RR, interchange with which was effected through the owned West Side Belt RR and did not involve the bridge over the Ohio.  WPTRy’s freight house was, of course, in the Golden Triangle and could have been used for LCL shipments to PRC, but even then delivery would have been problematic.  

It was the burning of the latter freight house that is widely claimed to have been the impetus for the redevelopment of the lower Triangle area following WW II.

Dwight

From: robert netzlof 
Sent: Friday, 27 July, 2012 11:38
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org 
Subject: [PRCo] Circa 1908 view of Pittsburgh
I stumbled onto the attached photo at:
http://www.shorpy.com/Wabash-Bridge?size=_original#caption

(that's the version without my doodling)

The attached edited version directs attention to something I found interesting. I wonder if the PRC or predecessors were customers?

I thought I'd sent this yesterday, but I haven't seen hide nor hair of it. User error? Over-zealous anti-spam trap somewhere? Death of The Internet? Who can say?

Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob

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