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The West Busway is a two-lane bus-only highway serving the western portions of the city of Pittsburgh and several western suburbs. The busway runs for 5.1 miles (8.2 km) from the southern shore of the Ohio River near Downtown Pittsburgh to Carnegie, [1] following former railroad right-of-way on the Panhandle Route.
Main Line (Pittsburgh, PA to St. Louis, MO) Ohio Connecting Railway (Woods Run, Pittsburgh to Elliott, Pittsburgh) [1] Duffs Branch (Esplen, Pittsburgh to Thornburg) [1] Sheridan Branch (Esplen, Pittsburgh to Elliott, Pittsburgh) [1] Chartiers Branch (Carnegie to Washington) Bridgeville and McDonald Branch (Bridgeville to Cecil)
The line runs from Rankin north through Pittsburgh to West Pittsburg (near New Castle) [1] along a former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line, once the Pittsburgh and Western Railroad. The line begins in Rankin at the Pittsburgh Subdivision, almost directly under the Rankin Bridge, and runs along the east (right) shore of the Monongahela River.
The Pittsburgh and Western Railroad (reporting mark PW) was a nineteenth-century, 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad connecting Pittsburgh with coal supplies and the oil field around Titusville, Pennsylvania. [1] Its right-of way formed the main line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad west from Pittsburgh. It was reorganized in 1889 under ...
The line from Pittsburgh was extended from Hays to Dravosburg in 1895 and a trestle linking the two lines was completed in 1897. [24] 56A Lincoln Place via 2nd Ave. Aug 31, 1963 [6] 57 Glenwood Mar 1890 [13] Jul 4, 1964 [6] First permanent electric line in Pittsburgh, Second Avenue Traction Co. Short turn of the 56. 58 Greenfield by 1915 [1 ...
The western end of the line was simultaneously built from Pittsburgh, eastward along the Allegheny and Conemaugh rivers to Johnstown, while the eastern end was built from Harrisburg to Altoona. In 1848, the Pennsy contracted with the Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mountjoy and Lancaster Railroad (HPMtJ&L) to buy and use equipment over both roads ...
1850 map of the Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad. Work began on August 16, 1854, on the Fort Wayne Railroad Bridge over the Allegheny River to extend the O&P into Pittsburgh to connect with the Pennsylvania Railroad. The bridge opened September 22, 1857, with a temporary station at Penn and Wayne Streets (today Penn Avenue and Tenth Street).
Stations are listed from west to east. Distances shown are from Ligonier: [1] [2] Ligonier (0 miles (0 km)) was the western terminus of the railroad, where it connected with the Ligonier Valley Railroad and thence to the Pennsylvania Railroad main line. Running southeasterly from Ligonier, the PW&S followed Loyalhanna Creek.