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Pig & Whistle by Ronald DeGraw CERA Bulletin #140 W dust jacket
Pig & Whistle by Ronald DeGraw
Hard Cover w/Dust jacket
224 pages
Copyright 2007
CONTENTS
Dedication 5
Acknowledgments 6
Preface 7
Chapter 1Visions of Grandeur (1902-1907) 11
Map: Gould's Eastward Expansion13
Map: P&W's Proposed Service to Parksburg 17
The "Dinkies"22
The Phantom Cars 25
Chapter 2Settling In(1907-1910) 29
Map: Philadelphia & Western Railway-1909 40
Service Patterns (1907-1910) 41
Beechwood Powerhouse 42
Chapter 3 Beechwood Park45
Map: Beechwood Park-1907 47
Chapter 4Building for Survival (1911-1912) 51
Map: Strafford Terminal-19 58
Map: Philadelphia & Western Railway-1912 65
Map: Liberty Bell Route & Connecting Lines 69
Service Patterns 1911-1912 73
Stopping a Train73
LVT's Electric Empire 74
Chapter 5Prosperity and Competition (1913-1929)77
Service Patterns 1913-1929 91
Mitten's Revenge 92
Power for the People 93
The Ithan Tragedy 93
Chapter 6The First Buses 97
Map:Main Line Transfer's Bryn Mawr Loop 98
Chapter 7Dr. Conway to the Rescue (1930-1933) 101
Map: Norristown-1931 120
Service Patterns 1930-1933 121
Tickets, Please! 122
P&W Leads in Streamlining 123
ON THE BACK COVER
The men who founded the Philadelphia & Western dreamed of completing a coast-to-coast railroad network, with the P&W serving as the eastern link into Philadelphia and New York City. This idea failed, but the little railroad which served a collection of Philadelphia-area communities managed to thrive and become an electric railway success story. Three decades after its conception, the company placed into service some of the most revolutionary railway cars ever built, the famous high speed "Bullets." Thank sto the management skills of Dr. Thomas Conway Jr., the P&W survived the Great Depression and was able to successfully adjust to the explosive growth in automobile use after World War II.
There's no record of how the P&W got the whimsical name that stuck with it for the rest of its life: "Pig & Whistle." It's been called that since the 193os, and longtime riders still recall the name- half a century after the corporate name of Philadelphia & Western ceased to exist.
Join the venerable Pig & Whistle and marvel at its story.
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