[PRCo] Re: Circa 1908 view of Pittsburgh

robert netzlof wb3iqe at rocketmail.com
Fri Jul 27 17:54:23 EDT 2012


--- On Fri, 7/27/12, Derrick Brashear <shadow at gmail.com> wrote:
 
> 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".

Note also that plate 30 of the 1910 Hopkins Atlas as well as plate 1 in volume 6 of the 1916 atlas show several team tracks and a freight house marked "Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railroad" (or W. P. T. RR) sitting between the P&LE team tracks across Smithfield from the P&LE station and the west leg of the Panhandle wye.

I've often wondered how they got from there to the rest of their system. Via P&LE, I suppose, but where was connection from P&LE to the WPT main?
  
Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob






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