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The portion which ran downstream from Trafford on the right bank of the Turtle Creek waterway would be dubbed the East Pittsburgh Branch and was leased back to the Westinghouse Company, which operated its Interworks Railway on the tracks until a flood control project on Turtle Creek broke apart the tracks in 1962.
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 ...
Turtle Creek is the English translation of the Native American name, [4] naming the area for its abundance of turtles. [5] During the mid-eighteenth century, the Turtle Creek valley lay on the western frontier of the British colony of Pennsylvania, and much of its early written history revolved around the French and Indian War.
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 ...
It resides at the Southern California Railway Museum, (formerly known as the Orange Empire Railway Museum) and frequently pulls passenger trains for museum visitors. [13] Western Pacific Railroad 501, originally built as EMC demonstrator 906, is preserved at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum at Portola, CA. This locomotive was the Western ...
TCKR - Turtle Creek Industrial Railroad; TCL - Twin City Lines; TCLX - Trinity Chemical Leasing; TCMX - Transportation Company of America; TCRT - Twin City Rapid Transit Company; TCRY - Tri-City Railroad; TCStL - Toledo, Cincinnati and St Louis Railroad; TCSX - Tank Car Services, Inc. TCSZ - Triple Crown Service; TCT - Texas City Terminal Railway
Turtle Creek is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Pittsburgh. The population was 5,114 at the 2020 census . [ 3 ] George Westinghouse constructed a manufacturing plant nearby.
The town of Lebanon, Ohio, laid out in 1802, was bypassed by the Miami and Erie Canal in 1830; the branch Warren County Canal to Lebanon was wrecked by flooding in 1848. The Little Miami Railroad (1846, later a Pennsylvania line) and Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad (1851, later a B&O line) followed the valleys of the Little and Great Miami rivers (the M&E Canal had used the latter ...