[PRCo] Castle Shannon slum???

[Herb Brannon]

Yes, I was going to mention that the area would be hidden from Library Road
by the railroad.


On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net>wrote:

> And behind the P&WV embankment.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounces at mailman.dementix.org [mailto:
> pittsburgh-railways-bounces at mailman.dementix.org] On Behalf Of Herb
> Brannon
> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2014 8:01 AM
> To: Western PA Trolley discussion
> Subject: Re: [PRCo] Castle Shannon slum???
>
> 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_193
> > 8_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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