Posted by Pricedale Pat
on 7/28/2009, 11:31 pm, in reply to "New Norfolk & Western Book"
No mention or coverage of the former Monessen Southwestern branch? I know that it wasn't part of the P&WV/NW line, but did generate a lot of freight movements with the main line at Monessen Junction.
PP
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: Prior to the Wheeling & Lake Erie
: Railway, the Norfolk & Western
: Railway operated the former
: Pittsburgh & West Virginia
: Railway from 1964 up through May
: 1990.
:
: A new pictorial book measuring 12
: inches by 9 inches, hardcover with
: dustcover, 144 pages of 157 pound
: acid free stock is currently at
: prepress being prepared for printing
: which is expected later this fall.
:
: This new pictorial will span the
: timeline from 1979 through 1990
: covering the entire 111 miles of
: former P&WV trackage, starting
: in Connellsville, then on West to
: Pittsburgh Junction with side trips
: on the Clairton, Mifflin and West
: End Branches and a side trip down
: the Rehobeth Spur. A few views of
: the abandoned Donora Branch are
: included before the rail was pulled
: up.
:
: Also of interest will be a handful
: of early P&WV scenes taken at
: Bruceton, Curry, West Liberty and
: down on the West End Branch. There
: will also be one scene from 1936,
: one of a handful I uncovered years
: ago, taken along the Banksville
: Branch of the West Side Belt.
:
: The Banksville Branch started out
: life in 1853 as the Little Saw Mill
: Run Railroad before being merged
: into the West Side Belt...then into
: the P&WV. There is still part of
: the little Saw Mill Run Railroad in
: existance down in Temperanceville,
: near Pittsburgh that was part of the
: West End Branch but now is being
: lost to the West End Circle
: construction.
:
: The Banksville Branch was in
: disarray when the above photo was
: taken, but fortunately, the County
: of Allegheny Photographer recorded
: several right of way scenes before
: all was lost.
:
: As a young boy prior to 1965 I lived
: just up the street from the near End
: of track of the Banksville Branch,
: never knowing much about it till
: later in life.
:
: When I learn the book is going to
: print with a estimated delivery
: date, I will begin taking orders.
:
: Updates can be followed at;
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: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/ConnellsvilleDistrict
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