The P&WV Hi-Line

Dave;

Most of the "run-through" trains kept their power on all the way to Brewster. Often WM power going west to Brewster returned East the very next day.

Crews going to the P&LE often ...

I was in Mifflin Yard recently - so many changes from years ago. Only 4 interchange tracks remaining compared to my 1st visits in the 1970's. The former Westinghouse facility where the retired PAAC ...

Very Nice.

Eric;

In looking at your stations & sidings list for the Mifflin Branch, is there a listing for the switch off the Mifflin Branch near Mifflin Yard for the Montour R.R. branch that went down Ro ...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but as the A D White folks were having their meetings years ago of which I attended a few, it was my understanding Pryor was actually west of Avella, down towards Craighead. ...

Dave, there was a spur that dead ended just above Kilarney. As a matter of fact, its still there in the trees complete with bumping block. Some of the spur near the end is built on steel beams. As yo ...

Eric;

A half mile East of Pierce on the Clairton Branch would have to be the switch ties I once saw in between Peters Creek Bridge and Gill Hall underpass. Between that point and Mile Post 1 is eit ...

Eric;

I once saw a blue print for a "loop" track for Longview. It was to branch off the Mifflin Branch circling overtop of the main up near Baptist Road overpass then back to the main down near the ...

Eric;

I read in the tons of material Jim & Jer now have about the Owensdale connection. There was info in there about the work trains detoured over the PRR so as to work from the east end of th ...

Fantastic job Eric.

A couple additions.

When the extension was built, at Owensdale, there was a temporary connection to the PRR..later rebuilt to the SWP. P&WV sent a few work trains to Brid ...

I think the roof "notch" for LONGVIEW Station was for the train order semaphore.

When you came into the side door of Longview, Monessen and Clairton Station there was a narrow "back room" separat ...

Jayrod... Route 22 in Ohio, 35 miles west of Steubenville the 828 is on display there. Use to be Cravat Coal Company property, not sure who owns it these days but it was there 2 months ago if you want ...

Not sure the exact specifics of the plumbing, the 500 series cabooses had a cupola mounted horn. It did not dump the air when used. I have a ancient tape recording of the late C.A. McCready using the ...

A big Thank You to Rick Rowlands for the "high green" in allowing the P&WV Hi-Line Group access to the vast collection of P&WV/WPT/WSB/PC&W engineering drawings dating back to the first da ...

I finally located a elderly trackchart that shows many of the spurs west of Avella and the customers on those spurs. Going west from Cliftonville there were two customers between Mile Post 87 and 88. ...

Correct Jerry, that Alco sat there at Chaintown for several weeks before it was moved to Rook then onto Brewster.

T’was just before Christmas
Quite some time ago
Not much was stirring
Along the P&WV Route.
The cabooses…the run-throughs.
The traffic control
Now retired decades ago.
As Santa was planni ...

This was posted on another group recently by Tom Barnett;

Back in 1966, I worked Piney Fork as agent/operator for NYC and would talk via city phone 733-7182 to the N&W agent at that depot in Sm ...

$300...sheez.
Funny thing, some years back a co-worker friend, a photography buff as well would take jabs at me and my refusal to switch to digital!
I kept in mind the lectures another friend offere ...

Betsy stripped coal up into the 70's if memory serves me correctly. The late Lester Matthews who lived in the company store directly behind Smithfield Station worked there as a truck driver making reg ...

$73.00 for a single Kodachrome.
Wonder what my original Montour R.R. Kodachromes are worth ?

I believe I have a photo of one of those "General Electric" covered hoppers at Rook...

When the 107 ran with the 3 flat cars, where you able to capture the helicopter taking off overtop ? I noticed it up on the runway idling as we parked our cars, was hoping it would depart over the 1 ...

A eastbound just went up the hill, from listening in at home the jointed rail is still in West of the Castle Shannon detector as you can hear rail joints under the train. Today coming home from work t ...

Jer, still looking at the cab 839 scene. It has to be out west, unless the MSW didn't have their overpass built overtop the P&WV at Monessen at this late date, however there is no traffic control ...