West Penn Railways
1914 system map | |
A West Penn Railways car in 1891 | |
| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Connellsville, Pennsylvania |
| Locale | Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia |
| Dates of operation | 1904–1952 |
| Predecessor | Brownsville Street Railway Co., Greensburg and Southern Electric Street Railway Co, Latrobe Street Railway Co., and others |
| Successor | None (Exception: Co-operative Transit Company was the successor of Wheeling area lines.) |
| Technical | |
| Track gauge | 5 ft 2+1⁄2 in (1,588 mm) (Exception: Kittanning area lines were 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in or 1,435 mm standard gauge.) |
| Length | 339 miles (546 km) |
West Penn Railways, one part of the West Penn System, was an interurban electric railway headquartered in Connellsville, Pennsylvania. It was part of the region's power generation utility.