[PRCo] Castle Shannon slum???

[Herb Brannon]

Ed,
Willow Avenue is across (on the west side) of the trolley tracks and
station. I was looking at one of the USGS maps which labeled Grove Road
(portion at the trolley grade crossing) as Willow Ave. I should have looked
at Google Maps to begin with. Willow continues north on the west side of
the trolley right of way until the 90-degree curve where it becomes Sleepy
Hollow and goes west toward Mt. Lebanon/Dormont. Grove Road comes down the
hill from Baldwin/Whitehall, then crosses Library Rd and the trolley tracks
and ends at Willow. Linden Grove is still standing, albeit the old octagon
shaped building has had a lot of "additions" added to it.

So, the question still is, where were the "company houses" ? They had to be
somewhere around Killarney Drive or just south of there. Once you pass the
Busy Beaver entrance between Killarney and McNeilly you're back in the city
of Pittsburgh. Also, the portion of Library Road from McNeilly south to
just past Grove Road was realigned at some time since the late 1980s, so
now it's harder to tell where old things used to stand in that area.


On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net>wrote:

> The fire department's lot is at Linden Grove, now Memorial Hall, stop.
> That's at the intersection of Grove Road (or is it Sleepy Hollow?) and
> Willow.  Willow station is the old municipal building stop.  Mine 2 was
> north of Linden Grove.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounces at mailman.dementix.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounces at mailman.dementix.org] On Behalf Of
> Herb
> Brannon
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 5:00 PM
> To: Western PA Trolley discussion
> Subject: Re: [PRCo] Castle Shannon slum???
>
> Most of that land along the west side of Library Road ( somewhat south of
> the Ford dealer) is owned by the Borough of Castle Shannon today. This
> includes the Port Authority Park & Ride Lot at Willow Avenue. That lot is
> on
> Borough Property and is operated by the C.S. Fire Dept. Could the park &
> ride be the old "company housing" area?
>
>
> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Edward H. Lybarger
> <trams2 at comcast.net>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.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pittsburgh-railways-bounces at mailman.dementix.org
> > [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounces at mailman.dementix.org] On Behalf Of
> > Fred Schneider
> > Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 4:19 PM
> > 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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