[PRCo] Finished through March 22, 1947

[Edward H. Lybarger]

There were two trolley stops serving greater Mollenauer -- Mine 3 and
Washington Junction.

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[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounces at mailman.dementix.org] On Behalf Of Fred
Schneider
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2014 9:35 PM
To: Western PA Trolley discussion
Subject: [PRCo] Finished through March 22, 1947

Ever hear of a steel mill on the North Side.   Here is an item about
Crucible Steel tearing down its facility on Ridge Ave.   Ridge ran about
4,600 feet from Chateau St. (just west of the West End Bridge) eastward to
Merchant St., which is two blocks short of Federal St.   It is parallel to
and one block north of Reedsdale St., where the new light rail runs.   

So where was the mill?  Between Lighthill St and Chartiers St., Ridge on the
north and the Ohio river on the south.  That put's it just east of the West
End Bridge and behind the new Three Rivers Casino.   And Ridge doesn't go
there today.  Route 65 expressway blocks it.

 
http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?view=entry;cc=maps;
entryid=x-01v01p07

 
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HVMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4428%
2C3388615

End of shortage of freight cars by summer of 1947 . maybe?   You can read
more of this story day after day after day.  This is just one installment.

 
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HlMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2301%
2C3833782

Pittsburgh Railways to create new feeder bus line in Beechview

 
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HlMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2274%
2C3889996

Retaliation is oh so sweet..

 
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=H1MbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2648%
2C4256041

The old Wheeling and Lake Erie merges into the Nickel Plate

 
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IFMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3802%
2C4652384

Who says I have to pay my fare . the hell with you boss.

 
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=c3YbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=20wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4432%
2C496426

Four remain in hospital after Truck hits Trolley.

 
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=c3YbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=20wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5817%
2C496010

We all know that smoke control is a done thing in Pittsburgh but it is
fascinating reading back in the 1940s when the opposition . the miners, the
coal industry, and the factories were fighting to make sure it didn't
happen.   They were all taking the stance that smoke is good for the
economy.

 
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dHYbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=20wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2308%
2C734640

 
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dHYbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=20wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4514%
2C743298

And here is the PRR saying we cannot comply.   Of course five years later
they didn't have a steam engine in Pittsburgh.

 
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dXYbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=20wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2817%
2C1043664

Study of Dravosburg and Rankin Bridges contracted because of delay in
replacing them.

 
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dXYbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=20wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3626%
2C1097545


PRC is not going to oppose either the new Rankin or Dravosburg Bridges

 
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dXYbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=20wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3626%
2C1097545


March 21, 1947 - Front page - link not possible because the page was
digitized sideways.   Interesting story that the mayor orders the PRR to
cooperate with smoke control. 

Same issue, page 2 . Several Pennsy accidents resulting in crew deaths.

       http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dnYbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=20wEAA

I've heard so many stories about how the hospitals for the insane change
during a full moon that I could not resist highlighting this story about a
guy wrecking a train during the full moon.  There are several parallel
stories in this link . look for the one headed 'Moon Mad Wreck....'
 
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dnYbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=20wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3693%
2C1994360

Where is Mollenauer?    When I was a kid I could tell the bus driver to let
me off at the Rotary.   It had not existed since 1938 but they all
remembered.   Today that doesn't work.   Same thing here.   Closest would be
Mine 3 or Hillcrest or Washington Junction.

 
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dnYbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=20wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5133%
2C2097033

     http://www.coalcampusa.com/westpa/pittsburgh/montour3/mon3.htm

Can you imagine 571 miles of freight cars on order?

 
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dnYbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=20wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6645%
2C2116024
     





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