[PRCo] Something completely different

[Derrick Brashear]

he has. i have the book somewhere around here. he sorely needs an editor,
but the information is there.


On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net>wrote:

>
> Derrick
>
> I believe Wayne Cole has written about the last mentioned.
>
> Dwight
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Derrick Brashear
>   To: Western PA Trolley discussion
>   Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 11:56 PM
>   Subject: Re: [PRCo] Something completely different
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> 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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