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Pennsylvania Railroad Lines West Vol 2 Pittsburgh and Northeast Ohio 1960-1999
Pennsylvania Railroad Lines West Vol 2 Pittsburgh and Northeast Ohio 1960-1999
Hard Cover
Copyright 2008
By Steve Hipes and David P. Oroszi
136 pages
CONTENTS
Chapter 1 Passenger Operations6
Chapter 2 Pittsburgh to Crestline: The Fort Wayne Line8
Chapter 3 The Cleveland & Pittsburgh62
Chapter 4 The Akron Branch98
Chapter 5 Steel Country: Lines of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio112
This book is not the definitive history of the PRR in western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio. Our objective is to present an overview, in words and photographs, of the evolution of a group of lines from their final years in Tuscan Red, through the low points of the Penn Central bankruptcy, to the turnaround of the property by a one-time government ward, the Consolidated Rail Corporation. Our story stops on May 31, 1999, when Conrail operations were divided between CSX and Norfolk Southern. We have not completely ignored the "unmerging" of Conrail, however, as a short postscript brings the story to its current, but not final, end.
The Pennsy made a fortune serving customers along its right-of-ways in western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio. Although the Blue Ribbon passenger fleet, the hot LCL (less-than-carload) trains and other fast freights plied the rails of the Pittsburgh to Chicago main line, it was the dirty business of serving the coal, iron and steel industries, located along secondary main lines and branch lines, that put money into PRR's bank account.
The Fort Wayne Line was dotted with a good number of high volume customers, such as Republic Steel in Canton and Westinghouse in Mansfield. It was the secondary main lines in the region, however, that served a broad array of steel industry heavyweights, among them US Steel, National Steel, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, Midland Steel and Wheeling Steel. By the mid-1950s, Chrysler and Ford had built stamping plants along the Cleveland & Pittsburgh (C&P) line south of Cleveland, generating even more profitable business for the Keystone. Some of the smaller freight yards in cities like Alliance, Niles, New Castle and Sharon, were home to yard crews that worked around the clock to service accounts.
Chapter 1 Passenger Operations6
Chapter 2 Pittsburgh to Crestline: The Fort Wayne Line8
Chapter 3 The Cleveland & Pittsburgh62
Chapter 4 The Akron Branch98
Chapter 5 Steel Country: Lines of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio112
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