[PRCo] Castle Shannon slum???

[D Brashear]

There are 37 buildings next to a mine plainly visible here:
http://data.cei.psu.edu/pennpilot/era1940/allegheny_1938/allegheny_1938_photos_jpg_800/allegheny_051739_aps7264.jpg



On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net> wrote:

>
> Fred
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> 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:
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>       40.3375696 -79.9914409 402015N 0795929W
>       Glassport
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> 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.
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> http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mfUaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=40wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3890%2C1953753
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> Anyone knowledgeable enough to tell me what this refers to in todays terms?
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