The P&WV Hi-Line

Jayrod,

I can only tell you the names of places when I was working.A lot of times we were told to work by nick names not mile posts.One odd one was Mad Dog Crossing.

Bill

Jayrod,

a PWV time table might be of help.The Bridge Camp was cut out on a spur track off Rockdale side track on the west end,just west of double track bridge.This was late in 1951 and do not know ...

Looking thru work train order dated 8-6-1958,cars to be left on Oilett
mine track at Rockdale and work to be done between Helen mine and Louise company houses.

Bill

pwv jer

Welded on frog in switch in 1967 just east of Louise,which at that time was called Helen Mine Switch.The track took off to south of main track and was good for about two freight cars.I ...

The wye at Monessen remained in service until early 1970,when a derailment on the main track took out west leg of wye and west leg was never put back in service.The east leg remained in service for a ...

PWV Jer

In reference to post about cars in slide.File #87/1203 shows Work Train Cars,this is actually the Bridge Gang Camp Cars .The last two cars to the right appear to be the ones in the slide.
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PWV Jer.

This appears to be Bridge Gang Kitchen Car. I do not remember the number but it was a open vestabula car like the one on the slide. The car next to it could be Bridge Gang Sleeper Car. dur ...

This appears to be West End Branch with NW 1300 approaching Stuben St. crossing.

Camp Car Bill

JZ

Cannot recall P.172&P.173 used by Paint Gang
Bridge Gang use P.421 a wooden open vestabula for a kitchen car and P.169 a wooden 6 wheel truck for a sleeper car,the other numbers of other ca ...

in the spring of 1953,bridge gang and american bridge co.did an overhaul of steel structure of this bridge.after the overhaul the bridge gang painted the
bridge.
the camp cars were cut out just ea ...

Crew Rest,

During NW era,they stayed in basement of Main Office Bldg.Cab would take them to Carnegie to eat
When I was in the Carpenter Gang we painted these five rooms.

Camp Car Bill

Rich

In reply to PWV phone system.The phones were a party line system,each location had a crank phone and a knife switch. One side of switch was for the dispatcher and the other side for location ...

JZ,

Walking on high stuff is still OK but climbing is out.I will be 80 in November.

CCB

Longview Station,
In reference to the hole you found in Bruceton Station . The roof was put on between 1975 and 1980 by Rook Carpenter Gang. The only two left fron from the gang are George Whitaker ...

Rich S.

There was a big change to Track and Bridge Building Dept. when the NW tookover in 64.They did not understand the big bridges ,like Mingo Creak with a severe curve and Adams tunnel with curv ...

Rich S.

I started to work for PWV on March 29,1951 when I was 17 years old,before that I stayed many summers at the Bridge Gang Camp Cars during school vacation.My father was Bridge Gang Foreman fr ...

Longview Station

I was with the Bridge Gang when the Avella Coal Dock was dynamited.The Bridge Gang Drilled the holes for the dynamite under direction of outside contactor who set it off.We were to ...

JR

As per our talk about the FM diesel engine at the Avella History Fair.I looked it up on Wikipedia and found the PWV had 22 FM H-20-44 of the 96 built.The diesel was a two stroke 10 cylinder (o ...

This picture appears to be 1949 Rook Carpenter Gang doing the work of resurfing the floor.The man in the top coat appears to be the image of Engineer MofW R.S. Anderson and the man next to him Carpent ...

Looks like the WLE is going to build a rail to river facility at Bellaire,Ohio.The PWV had this in mind during the 1950's but on the other side of the river near Wellsburg.WV.The AFE AFR Documents jus ...

JZ

When the big disel electric crane arrived ,I think that put an end to the daily work train as far as the MofW was concerned.That crane could move 5 or 6 cars and only needed one operator and a h ...

JR/JZ

The 1953 orders have two things I do not remember.The bridge gang car consist.The kitchen car I remember was P421 not X192.I guess memory goes with age.The kitchen car was a wooden open plat ...

PWV JER

There is a lot of information in these 1952 "WORK TRAIN REPORTS ".It shows where I worked during the year. It seems Supervisor Dantry always refers to the Bridge Gang Camp Train as McWreath ...

Does anyone know if the navigation lights on Speer River Bridge are still in use? During the period between 1970 and 1975, I worked with the Electrician and we serviced these lights and got to them by ...

VW,

A little info on P-171 and PRR 493060.

P-171 was a wash and tool car for the Bridge Gang,it consisted of a coal stove with a very large pot of water on it kept hot by coal fire under it all ...