The P&WV Hi-Line

Looks like that large old concrete trestle over Sawmill Run Blvd aka PA Route 51 that led to the Wabash tunnel may be torn down. This June 30th, 2023 article from WPXI has some details: I wonder wha ...

Jayrod there was no date, actually. I was so excited at what I saw I didn't think of looking or asking for a date until I was long gone. Some research I did afterwards leads me to assume these engi ...

I did not know that the Monessen Southwestern had a one of these Whitcomb locomotives: **Not my pic...This is a picture of a picture taken at the Monessen Historical Society:
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Saw an article in The Valley Independent Online that Three Rivers Marine/Rail Terminal is to receive a million dollar grant for thier rail facility along the Monongahela River in Belle Vernon/Monessen ...

PWVJer, I was chatting with my mother's neighbor, who was a crane operator in Gibson Yard. He says he thinks that platform caboose was only one of three cabooses the MSW had. One was actually a boxc ...

Malley, if I'm not mistaken, due to lack of funds, the lower part of the Speers viaduct was never finished. Nothing was ever laid other than the steel girders for the roadbed, which are still the ...

Malley, if it helps with better odds, try monitoring the W&LE railfan website. I believe there's a string of fellow Hi-Liners that live along the line all the way from Rook to Connellsville who s ...

Saw an article in the June 2nd issue of the Valley Independent pertaining to an old caboose from the Monessen Southwestern Railway to be restored. Here's the link to the article:

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Sommers? Did somebody mention Sommers? As in the P&LE Sommers branch? I happen to have a bunch of pictures I took of the Sommers branch from a few years ago (if that's the Sommers you're referr ...

I was driving along Route 88 and saw some of the work being done to the trestle that crosses over Route 88, the one just north of the Mingo Creek Viaduct.

Well it's not exactly what I bet all of you are thinking, right now. But I set out to the ol' Donora Branch site on another mission yesterday and happend to notice that the last remaining trestle of ...

PWVJer..Although there is a spur just west of the BV bridge, you may be referring to the Rehobeth Spur, just east of the Monessen Junction. I saw an article in yesterdays's local paper (The Valley In ...

[quote="Yough river pirate"]I cant say enough about this website. The P&WV is my favorite railroad and this is the best place to see photos and hear other P&WV info. The photo of the bridge in ...

Here is a drawing from 1936 of what could have been an interchange with Saw Mill Run Blvd & the Wabash Tunnel. The city of Pittsburgh attempted to buy this land three times throughout the decade ...

Took a stroll up to Monessen Jct Yesterday and to my surprise I see that they (The Wheeling I assume) are dismantiling the rr overpass that carried the old Monessen Southwestern Ry from the intercha ...

Did the Donora Southern RR own the trackage up to Sudan or was the Donora Branch P&WV trackage?

I was on the Westmoreland County Courthouse's website looking up some real estate information and started poking around and found some legal stuff on the P&WV from recent years. Doesn't make any ...

I think I remember reading on another website (The P&LE Yahoo group I think) that when CONRAIL was bought by CSX & NS, all the CONRAIL rolling stock that was to go CSX was stencilled with NY ...

Boy that brings back memories...N&W hauling cars out of the old VW plant. I remember back in the late 80s when I was a kid hanging around at the Monessen JCT & some of the track crew used t ...

Those units came thru Monessen headed towards Connellsville about 11:45 this morning toting about a dozen or so covered hoppers.

What a kick in the pants for the Wheeling. Anybody know how old the Clairton branch's roadbed is?

I'm not quite sure if this is right but I heard somewhere that the President of the P&WV (Gould?) would ride a train in a private coach and be dropped off at an estate just across the east end o ...

I wouldn't be surprised. A little off topic but I remember many, MANY years ago a P&LE conductor told me that after Conrail was formed, (something to do with trackage rights, I guess) it wasn't ...

Has this connection always been here and is just being revivied or is this a brand new connection?

What was the original purpose of the Rehobeth Spur just east of the Monessen interchange? was the P&WV anticipating an industrial park there after I-70 came through or was it built exclusively fo ...