Monongahela
Railway - (en)
The Monongahela Railway (AAR reporting marks MGA) was a coal-hauling
short line railroad in Pennsylvania and West Virginia in the United
States. It was jointly controlled by the Pennsylvania Railroad and New
York Central subsidiary Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, and
subsequently by their joint successor Penn Central Transportation. The
company operated its own line until it was merged into Conrail on May
1, 1993.
The primary connection to both controlling systems was at Brownsville,
Pennsylvania - with the south end of the P&LE's Pittsburgh,
McKeesport and Youghiogheny Railroad and with the PRR's ex-Brownsville
Railway. The PRR also interchanged traffic at Hoover, Pennsylvania,
the end of its Coal Lick Run Branch.
Equipment
The line gained its greatest level of attention from railfans
nationwide when it received the last nine Baldwin RF-16 Sharknose
locomotives in existence from the New York Central Railroad on the eve
of the Penn Central merger in late 1967. The last two, numbers 1205
and 1216, were sold for scrap in 1974 but subsequently rescued for use
on the Delaware and Hudson Railroad.
