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A circa 1900 photo depicts Murrysville station next to what was originally the Turtle Creek Valley Railroad. This right of way eventually became the TCKR. At its peak the Turtle Creek Branch extended from Westinghouse's facilities in Trafford all the way through Saltsburg, and its primary cargo was not gas
The following year, trail developers set their sights on the Turtle Creek valley, when they raised the funds to purchase the right of way of the Turtle Creek Industrial Railway. [14] Construction on a 5.9 mile section of this corridor between Trafford and Monroeville was completed in the fall of 2017, [ 15 ] and construction of a further 3.4 ...
In 1852, the Main Line of the Pennsylvania Railroad opened for business, transporting passengers and freight between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh via track laid along the left bank of the lower section of Turtle Creek and farther upstream through the Brush Creek valley. [10] In 1891, the Turtle Creek Valley Railroad began service from Trafford ...
The Westinghouse Interworks Railway was a short line railroad that operated in the lower Turtle Creek valley east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.A subsidiary of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, [1] [2] [3] the railway used former Turtle Creek Valley Railroad tracks that Westinghouse rebuilt and extended [4] from Trafford through Wilmerding to East Pittsburgh along the right bank (northern ...
The Port Perry Branch is a rail line owned and operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.The line runs from the Pittsburgh Line in North Versailles Township southwest through the Port Perry Tunnel and across the Monongahela River on the PRR Port Perry Bridge to the Mon Line in Duquesne along a former Pennsylvania Railroad line.
Turtle Creek Industrial Railroad, TCKR, formerly known as the Turtle Creek Valley Railroad and the Turtle Creek Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, now part of the Westmoreland Heritage Trail Width
George Westinghouse purchased land in the Turtle Creek valley in 1887 and 1888 as a site for his Westinghouse Air Brake Company and related facilities. Westinghouse then sold the land to the East Pittsburgh Improvement Company, incorporated in December 1888, to develop the site, and it began the sale of lots in June 1889. [5]
George Westinghouse Memorial Bridge in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, carries U.S. Route 30, the Lincoln Highway, over the Turtle Creek Valley near to where it joins the Monongahela River Valley east of Pittsburgh. The reinforced concrete open-spandrel deck arch bridge has a total length of 1,598 feet (487 m) comprising five spans. The longest ...