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Engine 550 saw "occasional duty" hauling trains up and down the line, while TCKR 462 was "the primary workhorse of the railroad". [7] When the Turtle Creek Industrial Railroad finally ceased operations, Engine 462's days of service did not end; before the tracks were removed this locomotive was relocated westward to Dura-Bond's Duquesne ...
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 ...
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 ...
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on National Register of Historic Places in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude ...
The property, on the south bank of Turtle Creek, was passed to James' sons Henry and John Walls, who lived in a log cabin near the heart of present-day Wall. A station on the Pennsylvania Railroad opened in the early 1840s, which was named "Walls' Station" in honor of the Walls family. Eventually, the name of the station and the town that grew ...
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. Turtle Creek takes its name from a small stream that flows into the Monongahela River. [4]
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