[PRCo] Re: Circa 1908 view of Pittsburgh

[Derrick Brashear]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net> wrote:
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> Bob
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> Customers of what?  The Wabash Pittsburg Terminal Ry?
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> 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.
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> 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.


I was interested to see that WPT was a partner in the Pittsburgh
Terminal Warehouse on the South Side despite the fact that the ramp
they had proposed to the South Side was blocked by the paper
"Monongahela, Allegheny and Ohio Railroad Company".



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Derrick