Butler Short Line Marker

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Gibsonia in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

Butler Short Line

By Mike Wintermantel, May 13, 2012

1. Butler Short Line Marker

Inscription. Richland Historical Marker
Butler Short Line electric street car passed this spot as it ran between Pittsburgh and Butler carrying passengers and freight from May first, 1907 until April twenty-second, 1931.

Location. 40° 37.994′ N, 79° 57.168′ W. Marker is in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, in Allegheny County. Marker is at the intersection of Gibsonia Road (Pennsylvania Route 910) and Ewalt Road, on the right when traveling west on Gibsonia Road. Click for map. Just west of the intersection of Ewalt and Gibsonia Road. Marker is in this post office area: Gibsonia PA 15044, United States of America.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 9 miles of this marker, as the crow flies. A different marker also named Butler Short Line (approx. 0.8 miles away); Trinity German Evangelical Lutheran Church (approx. 7 miles away); Kuskusky Path (approx. 7 miles away); Venango Path (approx. 7.4 miles away); Hiland Presbyterian Church (approx. 8.3 miles away); Crider's Corners (approx. 8.6 miles away); West View Memorial (approx. 8.8 miles away); 1806 Plains Presbyterian Church (approx. 8.9 miles away).

More about this marker. Marker is fading and getting hard to read.

Also see . . . Pittsburgh Butler Short Line. Vintage photos of the Short Line rail cars (Submitted on March 28, 2013, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.)

By Mike Wintermantel, May 13, 2012

2. Butler Short Line Marker

By Mike Wintermantel, May 13, 2012

3. Butler Short Line Marker

Credits. This page originally submitted on May 13, 2012, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This page has been viewed 161 times since then. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on May 13, 2012, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.