Port Perry Branch

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The Port Perry Branch is a rail line owned by Pennsylvania Lines LLC and operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The line runs from the Pittsburgh Line in North Versailles Township southwest through the Port Perry Tunnel and across the Monongahela River on the PRR Port Perry Bridge to the Mon Line in Duquesne along a former Pennsylvania Railroad line.

[edit] History

The Pennsylvania Railroad opened the branch in 1877, connecting its Main Line (Harrisburg Line) with the Pittsburgh, Virginia and Charleston Railway (Mon Line),^[1] in part to provide an alternate route around the south side of Pittsburgh. The PRR leased the PV&C in 1879 as part of its Monongahela Division.^[2] The branch passed to Penn Central Transportation in 1968, Conrail in 1976, and was assigned to Norfolk Southern in 1999.

[edit] See also

• Brilliant Branch, a similar cutoff across the Allegheny River

[edit] References

1. ^ PRR Chronology, 1877PDF, June 2006 Edition
2. ^ Historic American Engineering Record, Conrail Port Perry Bridge, Spanning Monongahela River, Port Perry, Allegheny County, PA