[PRCo] Castle Shannon slum???

[Dwight Long]

Fred

P&WV did indeed at one time own the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company. However, even though the coal outfit was separately incorporated, there was an issue with the Commodities Clause of the Interstate Commerce Act (added as part of the Hepburn Act of 1906), and this led to government pressure to sell the coal company, which the P&WV did in 1924.  

Mine 7 was shown as being variously in Horning or Large, Pa., in Jefferson Twp.  USGS Co-ordinates are given as:  


      40.3375696 -79.9914409 402015N 0795929W 
      Glassport
     

This is in the present day borough of Jefferson Hills.  Large is a part of Jefferson Hills.  This is a few miles southeast of Washington Jct.  Mine #7 was served by the West Side Belt RR, a P&WV subsidiary, at their M.P 18.  This was about 2 1/2 miles from the point where the West Side crossed over the PRR Peters Creek branch.

I do not think that the reference is to Mine #7.  There were several PTCC mines with lower numbers in Castle Shannon or vicinity, however.  And I seem to recall a stop on the Charleroi line just south of Washington Jct. with a mine’s name.

Dwight


From: Fred Schneider 
Sent: Thursday, 08 May, 2014 16:18
To: Western PA Trolley discussion 
Subject: [PRCo] Castle Shannon slum???

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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