[PRCo] Re: Circa 1908 view of Pittsburgh

[Bob Rathke]

I believe there is/was a connection between the P&LE and the P&WV (WPT) along West Carson St. near the south end of the West End Bridge. 



Bob 



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From: "robert netzlof" <wb3iqe at rocketmail.com> 
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org 
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 4:54:23 PM 
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Circa 1908 view of Pittsburgh 

--- 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