[PRCo] Re: connection to Connellsville via the Yough valley in 1900?

[Edward H. Lybarger]

For a number of years before about 1912-14, West Penn was regularly talking
(according to the newspapers) about how wonderful the connection via West
Newton would be.  The idea was to use the "Scott Haven" route out of
McKeesport and actually go through Scott Haven on the way to Hunker, where
the connection would be made.  Why Hunker?  It was the northernmost point on
the Pittsburgh, McKeesport & Connellsville Railway, where it connected with
the Pittsburgh, McKeesport & Greensburg company.  PMC became West Penn; PMG
was acquired in 1907 but not fully integrated until 1916.

Ed

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Subject: [PRCo] connection to Connellsville via the Yough valley in 1900?

Obviously never finished, but I was interested nonetheless to read this.


The later and the greater Connellsville is in communication with all the
leading com- mercial centers of North America, through important branches of
the principal railway systems of the country, the Pennsylvania, Vanderbilt
and Baltimore and Ohio. One railway connects it with West Virginia, an-
other with Washington city, and three lines with Pittsburg. An electric
railway pierces the Leisenring coke district, a suburban line extends to
South Connellsville and Mt. Pleas- ant. The Scottdale and Connellsville
electric street railway will soon be completed and will eventually connect
at West Newton with the extension of the Second Avenue electric railway of
Pittsburg.

An overhead iron bridge is now in process of construction from Connellsville
across the river to New Haven. Work on this bridge was delayed on account of
injunction pro- ceedings sustained in the lower courts, but set aside by
action of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.


from
http://www.archive.org/stream/nelsonsbiographi02shep/nelsonsbiographi02shep_
djvu.txt
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Derrick