[PRCo] Castle Shannon slum???

[Herb Brannon]

Ahh, they sat on what is now Castleview Road on the west side of the
trolley line.


On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 7:45 AM, D Brashear <shadow at dementix.org> wrote:

> 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
> >
> > 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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