[PRCo] Re: Circa 1908 view of Pittsburgh

[Dwight Long]

Derrick

That is indeed interesting.  I was unaware of that.  

WPT could still have reached the PTW by using the West Side Belt’s connection with the P&LE, but to do so would have required an intermediate switching agreement with the P&LE to get cars to the Allegheny & Southside Ry.  I don’t imagine the P&LE would have been too disposed to grant such an arrangement to the WSB unless forced to by the ICC.  At any rate, even if a paper connection had been established, P&LE could by delaying switching make the arrangement untenable.  

Do you have any particulars on traffic going to or from PTW via the WPT?

Dwight

From: Derrick Brashear 
Sent: Friday, 27 July, 2012 16:47
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org 
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Circa 1908 view of Pittsburgh
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