[PRCo] Something completely different

[Derrick Brashear]

http://books.google.com/books?id=Rs5CAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA555&lpg=PA555&dq=Monongahela+North+Shore+Railroad&source=bl&ots=8kjAg4jioM&sig=NCqda632SlRczMOvfnB1rXbIfWI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=PbKBUszHBve54AOHqYCwAQ&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Monongahela%20North%20Shore%20Railroad&f=false

looks like the only railroad.
http://books.google.com/books?id=5S0xAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=%22North+Shore+Railroad%22+baltimore+ohio+braddock&source=bl&ots=mqvZCR4d4-&sig=_36Z1ZMSkS8Uqg0PKzP3Q14siRE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qLSBUoLqJqf84AO_goBY&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22North%20Shore%20Railroad%22%20baltimore%20ohio%20braddock&f=false

suggests it connected the panhandle to the prr main, which means it was
never built.

http://archive.org/stream/reportofpennsylv1908penn/reportofpennsylv1908penn_djvu.txt
is the thing which ran from rochester to conway then inland, which i bet is
the one you found in receivership.



On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Robert Netzlof <rnetzlof at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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