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West Penn Railways consisted of 339 miles (546 km) of electric trolley trackage at its peak. It operated in a well populated mining region of rugged mountainous western Pennsylvania and connected numerous towns and villages with hourly or better transport from its north end towns at McKeesport, Latrobe and Trafford through the larger towns of Greensburg, Mt Pleasant, Connellsville, Scottdale ...
The origin of the museum can be traced to a group of electric railway enthusiasts who in 1949 acquired Pittsburgh Railways Company M-1, a small four-wheel Pittsburgh trolley. It and Pittsburgh Railways Company 3756 (a single-end low-floor car) and West Penn Railways Company 832 were stored for the group until 1954 in Ingram Car House by ...
Conestoga Traction's connections to adjacent interurban trolley companies such as Philadelphia and West Chester (later Red Arrow; now today's operating Media–Sharon Hill Line), West Chester Street Railway, West Chester and Coatesville Traction, Schuylkill Valley Traction, Reading Transit, Hershey Transit, and Harrisburg Railways, one could ride trolleys from Philadelphia to Harrisburg ...
1850s: Renamed the Pennsylvania Central Railway. 1850: Construction begins on Altoona Works repair shop at Altoona, Pennsylvania. 1857: The Main Line of Public Works of Pennsylvania purchased. 1865: First US railroad to use steel rails. [12] 1868: The Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway is formed and controlled by the Pennsy.
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West Penn and Shenango Connecting Railroad: B&LE: 1882 1889 Pittsburgh, Butler and Shenango Railroad: West Pittston – Exeter Railroad: LV: 1925 West Reading Railroad: RDG: 1860 1873 Philadelphia and Reading Railroad: West Side Belt Railroad: WSB P&WV: 1895 1928 Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway: Westerman Coal and Iron Railroad: ERIE: 1941 ...
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Warren and Jamestown Street Railway; West Penn Railways; Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton Railway This page was last edited on 24 December 2023, at 09:23 (UTC). ...