[PRCo] Castle Shannon slum???

[Fred Schneider]

Makes sense.   There was, at one time, a large P&WV yard up there.   Danke.   


On May 8, 2014, at 4:36 PM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> This article refers to Mine #2, which was indeed in Castle Shannon (near
> today's Ford Dealership).  PRCo once had a stop there; it was between Cooley
> and Linden Grove.
> 
> The mine at Washington Junction was P.T. Coal Co. Mine No. 3 (not 7); the
> patch was/is known as Mollenauer.
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> Schneider
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> This link leads to an abandoned mining patch story in the Pittsburgh Press
> ("50 Heath Law Violations..") in the postwar period at Castle Shannon.
> Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company sounds like a subsidiary of
> Wabash-Pittsburgh Terminal Railroad, i.e. the Pittsburgh and West Virginia.
> The earlier maps show they did own Mine 7 down at Washington Junction.
> However, I have no clue that it was in Castle Shannon borough in 1947 . it
> was not 40 years earlier.
> 
> http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mfUaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=40wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3890%
> 2C1953753
> 
> Anyone knowledgeable enough to tell me what this refers to in todays terms?
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