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Pittsburgh and Wilmerding Street Railway Company

1961

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Pittsburgh and Wilmerding Street Railway Company
  • Title
  • Pittsburgh and Wilmerding Street Railway Company
  • Date
  • 1961
  • Identifier
  • 20110202-hpicmonroeville-0083
  • Source Identifier
  • 736
  • Description
  • In 1901, the Pittsburgh and Wilmerding Street Railway Company was running trolley service along Broadway in Pitcairn, with a fare to Pittsburgh of 15 cents. Pittsburgh Railways took over the Pitcairn Trolley line in 1902, and it became part of a complex of trolley lines servicing the towns in the Turtle Creek valley. Pittsburgh Railways Company Streetcar on Broadway in Pitcairn in 1961. Trolleys continued provide service to Patton township, Monroeville and Pitcairn and the other towns along the Turtle Creek valley right through the 1960s.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Street-railroads--Pennsylvania--Pitcairn.
    Commercial buildings--Pennsylvania--Pitcairn.
    Broadway Boulevard (Pitcairn, Pa.).
    Pittsburgh and Wilmerding Street Railway Company.
    Pitcairn (Pa.)--History.
  • Source
  • Jeff Hummert
  • Contributor
  • Monroeville Historical Society
  • Collection
  • Monroeville Historical Society Collection
  • Rights Information
  • No Copyright - United States. The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
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