Posted by 1st - AJ -1 on 7/29/2009, 8:03 am, in reply to "Re: New Norfolk & Western Book"
PP - Mention is made of the Monessen-Southwestern RR and Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel. And of course the P&WV/N&W made a ton of money through interchange there at Monessen. Iron ore traffic coming via the P&WV and later the N&W for Monessen...coke coming East from Mingo Junction for Monessen...and all of that steel coming West out of Monessen. Remember the rail mill at Monessen, the building still stands. The N&W moved many trains of steel rail out of Monessen.
In the P&WV Days, P&WV Officers were part of Pittsburgh Steel...aka...Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel's Board of Directors so the connection with Speers River Bridge and the interchange with the P&WV is better understood.
But as a operation the N&W and the MSW were seperate and operation of the MSW won't be covered till a future Volume under the W&LE Flag.
I have photographs from the early W&LE era of a Sperry Car testing rail on the curved MSW bridge down under the high P&WV bridge, Conrail 6 axle power and a scene or two from the cab of a Conrail GE wide cab as it traverses the curved MSW bridge underneath the P&WV high bridge of the W&LE when for a short time the W&LE was moving the NS/Clairton coal trains complete with Conrail and W&LE power, on both ends of those 125 car coal trains. I have some real neat shots of early "W&LE" power down at the mill, before the blast furnaces etc, were razed, when the coke move was in its infancy and Conrail hitop hoppers made up most coke trains. This material will be for future volumes.
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