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- Montour_Railroad abstract "Montour Railroad (reporting mark MTR) is a former short line railroad company operating passenger and freight service on standard gauge track in southwestern Pennsylvania. At its height in the 1930s, the railroad served 27 mines transporting nearly seven million tons of coal annually in Allegheny and Washington Counties.The Montour Railroad Company was chartered in 1877 as a wholly owed subsidiary of the Imperial Coal Company. The first segment constructed extended from the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad line at Montour Junction, near Coraopolis, Pennsylvania to the Imperial Coal Company mines at Imperial, Pennsylvania. In 1901 the Pittsburgh Coal Company assumed control of the railroad. A major expansion was undertaken in 1912 to reach new coal mines and factories. By 1917 the town of West Mifflin, Pennsylvania on the Monongahela River was reached. The Montour Railroad became an important feeder line and eventually all five major truck carriers in the southwestern Pennsylvania market were linked to the Montour Railroad. In 1946 the Pittsburgh Coal Company sold the Montour Railroad to the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad (a subsidiary of the New York Central Railroad), who operated it jointly. The P&LE acquired sole control of the Montour Railroad in 1975.The railroad's engine houses and shops were at Montour Junction, near the Ohio River at Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. The Montour Railroad had passenger service in its early years from 15 stations along its route, but passenger service was abandoned by the mid-1920s. By the 1950s most of the coal mines the Montour serviced had been worked out and the Montour began a slow decline. The Montour Railroad was down to just 23 miles of track between Montour Junction and Gilmore Junction when operations ceased in 1984 with the closing of the Westland Coal mine, the Montour’s last remaining major customer. In the 1990s large portions of the rights of way were acquired by the Montour Trail Council in a "rails to trails" program.In 1944 Montour reported 159 million ton-miles of revenue freight; at the end of that year it operated 50 miles of road and 84 miles of track.In December 2010 MarkWest Energy announced plans to lease the Westland Branch right of way from the Montour Trail Council for 30 years. The branch was redeveloped as a combination trail and railroad operated by the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway to serve MarkWest's Westland natural gas processing plant. Construction was completed and the branch began operation in August 2012.".
- Montour_Railroad wikiPageExternalLink www.montourrr.com.
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- Montour_Railroad wikiPageRevisionID "680684687".
- Montour_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Category:Defunct_Pennsylvania_railroads.
- Montour_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Category:Former_Class_I_railroads_in_the_United_States.
- Montour_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Category:History_of_Allegheny_County,_Pennsylvania.
- Montour_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Category:Railway_companies_disestablished_in_1984.
- Montour_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Category:Railway_companies_established_in_1877.
- Montour_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Category:Transportation_in_Allegheny_County,_Pennsylvania.
- Montour_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Coraopolis,_Pennsylvania.
- Montour_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Feeder_line_(network).
- Montour_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Imperial,_Pennsylvania.
- Montour_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink MarkWest_Energy.
- Montour_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Montour_Trail.
- Montour_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Natural_gas.
- Montour_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink New_York_Central_Railroad.
- Montour_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Ohio_River.
- Montour_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Pennsylvania.
- Montour_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Pennsylvania_Railroad.
- Montour_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Pittsburgh_Coal_Company.
- Montour_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Pittsburgh_and_Lake_Erie_Railroad.
- Montour_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Rail_trail.
- Montour_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Railroad_classes.
- Montour_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Rails_to_trails.
- Montour_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Short-line_railroad.
- Montour_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink West_Mifflin,_Pennsylvania.
- Montour_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Wheeling_and_Lake_Erie_Railway_(1990).
- Montour_Railroad wikiPageWikiLinkText "MTR".
- Montour_Railroad wikiPageWikiLinkText "Montour Junction".
- Montour_Railroad wikiPageWikiLinkText "Montour Railroad".
- Montour_Railroad wikiPageWikiLinkText "Montour".
- Montour_Railroad endYear "1984".
- Montour_Railroad hasPhotoCollection Montour_Railroad.
- Montour_Railroad hqCity "Coraopolis, Pennsylvania".
- Montour_Railroad locale "Coraopolis, Pennsylvania to Imperial, Pennsylvania and West Mifflin, Pennsylvania".
- Montour_Railroad logoFilename "Montourrr.png".
- Montour_Railroad logoSize "150".
- Montour_Railroad marks "MTR".
- Montour_Railroad railroadAbbr "Montour Railroad".
- Montour_Railroad railroadName "Montour Railroad".
- Montour_Railroad startYear "1877".
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- Montour_Railroad wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Pennsylvania_railroads.
- Montour_Railroad wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Portal.
- Montour_Railroad wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Refimprove.
- Montour_Railroad wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Montour_Railroad wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reporting_mark.
- Montour_Railroad subject Category:Defunct_Pennsylvania_railroads.
- Montour_Railroad subject Category:Former_Class_I_railroads_in_the_United_States.
- Montour_Railroad subject Category:History_of_Allegheny_County,_Pennsylvania.
- Montour_Railroad subject Category:Railway_companies_disestablished_in_1984.
- Montour_Railroad subject Category:Railway_companies_established_in_1877.
- Montour_Railroad subject Category:Transportation_in_Allegheny_County,_Pennsylvania.
- Montour_Railroad hypernym Company.
- Montour_Railroad type Article.
- Montour_Railroad type Company.
- Montour_Railroad type Article.
- Montour_Railroad type Company.
- Montour_Railroad type Disestablishment.
- Montour_Railroad type Establishment.
- Montour_Railroad type Railroad.
- Montour_Railroad comment "Montour Railroad (reporting mark MTR) is a former short line railroad company operating passenger and freight service on standard gauge track in southwestern Pennsylvania. At its height in the 1930s, the railroad served 27 mines transporting nearly seven million tons of coal annually in Allegheny and Washington Counties.The Montour Railroad Company was chartered in 1877 as a wholly owed subsidiary of the Imperial Coal Company.".
- Montour_Railroad label "Montour Railroad".
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- Montour_Railroad sameAs m.0450t2.
- Montour_Railroad sameAs Q2413819.
- Montour_Railroad sameAs Q2413819.
- Montour_Railroad wasDerivedFrom Montour_Railroad?oldid=680684687.
- Montour_Railroad isPrimaryTopicOf Montour_Railroad.