[PRCo] Something completely different

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Never heard of either.  Perhaps B&O subsidiaries/underliers?

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Robert Netzlof
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 1:59 PM
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Subject: [PRCo] Something completely different

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



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