WASHINGTON  COUNTY

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EXISTING STATIONS
Station
Name		 Original
Railroad 		Current
Location		 Type Current
Use		 Date
Built		 Track
Status		 Building
Material		 More
Info
Avella ???? C Society 1904 In Use Wood
Burgettstown PA 18 F Business ???? Gone Wood
Burgettstown Main Street P Storage 1883 Gone Wood  
California Temperance & Wood P Library 1910 In Use Brick
Cannonsburg Murdoch & Jefferson P Civic ???? In Use Brick  
Finleyville Ann Street C ???? ??? In Use Wood  
Washington S. Main & Railroad C Railroad 1888 In Use Stone/
Wood
Washington Washington & Chestnut Sts. F Businesses 1884 In Use Brick
Washington

S. Main & Park P Storage 1907 Gone Brick
West Amity 51 West Hillsboro Road P ???? ???? Gone Wood
West Brownsville Main St. F Business ???? Gone Wood
STATIONS OF THE PAST
Station
Name		 Original
Railroad		 Notes
Bentleyville Demolished. Only the bumper block for the team track remains.
Braddock
Bulger This station was on Lincoln Street.
California This was the original passenger station, built in 1885. After the new station opened in 1910 it then served as the baggage pickup building.
Claysville
Donora
Ellsworth  
Finleyville This most likely predated the current station.
Hackney This is not the building that currently sits on SR2007 near the old grade (which looks like it could have been a station but isn't). The station was torn down in 1940 and, prior to that, was used as a barn and storage shed by a private owner after the line ceased steam operations in 1933.
Hanlin  
Hickory
McDonald  
Monongahela
Monongahela
Primrose  
Roscoe
Taylorstown Station Also known as Crother's Station, this depot sat across from the post office on a side road off SR3009.
Washington The original B&O freighthouse here burned in 1887 and was replaced in 1888.
1895 WASHINGTON COUNTY RAILROAD MAP
Notes About Existing Stations...

Avella (P&WV) - Restored by A.D. White Research Society. See restoration photos at their site.

Burgettstown (PRR) - Currently the station is being restored. When it is finished it will service as retail space for the Panhandle Trail, a restroom stop, and the head quarters for the BACDC. Updated pictures and an artist's rendition of the restoration can be seen at: www.burgettstowncommunity.org.

California (PRR) - On National Register of Historic Places. Caboose also on site. Became the library in 1958.

Washington (B&O) - The tracks don't see much action anymore besides an almost daily local which wanders down in the evening from Pittsburgh. In 1986, CSX ripped out around 15 miles of track between Wheeling, WV and Claysville, PA, severing the tracks which were once the farthest west in the USA. Station was designed by E F Baldwin. It cost $9,794. According to the B&O Annual Report of 1888, the station was built in that year.

Washington (W&W) - Used by Judson and Wiley for storage. It was built for the narrow gauge Waynesburg and Washington railroad back in the 1920's. After the Pennsylvania RR bought out the W&W, the tracks by the station were dual-gauged for a while.  The station has beautiful stonework, but it is not in really good shape now. A supply and cement company uses the building for storage, and cement trucks drive down where the tracks were. The tracks were last used in the late 70's/early 80's when Conrail would deliver hoppers to the supply company.

West Amity (W&W) - There have been reports that this station is now gone. Can someone confirm or deny that?

West Brownsvile (PRR) - Bob's Feed Store. Covered with alum. siding.