The P&WV Hi-Line

I worked for EW Tire in 1976-1977. I knew the history, and about the coal yard, but I never saw any photos of the coal yard or associated equipment.

From the Scott Township Facebook page:
Today in Scott Township History:
April 30, 1940: Five men are injured when a truck loaded with stone is forced off of Old Bower Hill Road (Main Street) and rol ...

Probably not 1301. It looks like it's in NS livery. 1301 never got that.

Looks like the West End to me. And it appears to be 1300, rather than 1308. Nice to see it on home rails.

Rich: O. Hommel Corporation. They made ceramic coatings. Founded in Scott Township in 1891 by Oscar Hommel, sold to Engelhard Corporation in 2002. Engelhard was acquired by BASF in 2006. Not long afte ...

They made polyester resin, and they made the constituent chemicals, phthallic anhydride and maleic anhydride. My father-in-law was the plant carpenter there. After the "green snow in Bridgeville" inci ...

I think the last movie I saw there was Caddyshack.

[quote="PWVBen"]
Can you tell me the address for the pennpilot and W&LE website
that had the aerial photos of the coal mines in Castle Shannon ?
Thanks
Ben[/quote]

I'm not Dave, but...

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If you have a facebook account, check out the photos on the "We're from Scott...We're kind of a big deal" group. There's a newspaper clip from the time it was about to be torn down, and in one of my p ...

What they said. Happy anniversary to the site, and thanks for what you do.

Peace
Kevin

When you're looking at a connection between WE MP 59 and POHC, it's not quite nothing but available real estate. There's a significant acid mine drainage problem just about directly below MP 59, direc ...

[quote="CuriousGeorge"]The AVR has a tunnell in Whitehall ?????

Never knew that ... also, nice to see the progress moving nicely on the connections. I drove through the area a few days ago just to ...

Well, I think there's a Greenberg's show in Monroeville this weekend. It's been quite a while since I went to one, but sometimes there's something of interest.

Since April, I've had the Hi-Line site linked off of the links page of [url=http://www.bowerhillfire.com/]Bower Hill VFD's web site. I've gotten several "Boy, that's a good site," and "How did you fin ...

When I was a kid, I called these "the ruins." My grandfather, who grew up in the area, explained that they were the storage silos for the concrete batch plant that was used when present-day Route 51 w ...

Amen on most of the the manufacturers getting the logos wrong. That was one of the things Longview Shops did right.

I'd love to see a correct lettering guide for P&WV rolling stock and locos. ...