[PRCo] Something completely different

[Robert Netzlof]

Last night I was looking at the Hopkins Real Estate Plats for
Braddock/Rankin (Volume 8, plate 7) and got a surprise.

There are two rather large plots running more or less parallel to the
Monogahela, lying between the B&O and PRR, marked North Shore Railroad
Company. Prowling about with Google turned up a court case (in
Lawrence County) involving the North Shore's receivership, and a
Pittsburgh ordinance regarding the Monongahela North Shore Railroad's
rights to run along Second Avenue (more or less) to connect to "the
railroad tracks now on Try Street".

All this has me baffled. The only North Shore Railroad I had known of
is the one over by Williamsport. The one referenced above seems to
have come into being around 1885. The Hopkins plats are from 1915.
That there was court action in Lawrence County suggests that the North
Shore RR was rather more grand than "Braddock to Try Street", but
perhaps the Monogahela North Shore and the North Shore were two
different entities.

Perhaps Monogahela NS RR was a street car line, the NS RR a steam
railroad? Or the other way 'round?

Has anyone here heard of either of those companies?  If so, what have you heard?

-- 
Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob