[PRCo] Finished through March 22, 1947

Mon Jun 2 09:42:04 EDT 2014

The local kiddies destroyed the Mine 3 shelter around 1970.  Recollection (from HHG) is that they got a sheet metal replacement.   

> From: trams2 at comcast.net
> To: pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org
> Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 09:23:09 -0400
> Subject: Re: [PRCo] Finished through March 22, 1947
> 
> There were two trolley stops serving greater Mollenauer -- Mine 3 and
> Washington Junction.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounces at mailman.dementix.org
> [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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