[PRCo] Re: Circa 1908 view of Pittsburgh

[Dwight Long]

Bob

There was not a direct connection.  Traffic had to move via an intermediate carrier, and of course the carrier of choice for the WPT was their owned West Side Belt.  The connection with P&LE from the WSB  was called “West End” and was in that neighborhood.

In 1955 I was a passenger on an excursion which originated at the P&LE Terminal (with P&WV FM road switchers all the way), backed to West End then proceeded over the West Belt to West Belt Junction, then to Rook.  After a tour of facilities at Rook, the train went to Connellsville over the P&WV and returned to Pittsburgh over the P&LE line, which has been torn up.  That was quite a trip!

Dwight

From: robert netzlof 
Sent: Friday, 27 July, 2012 17:54
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org 
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