page_title: Pittsburgh Coal Company
section_title: Railroads
hierarchical_section_title: Pittsburgh Coal Company / Railroads
context_page_description: The Pittsburgh Coal Company was a bituminous coal mining company based in Pittsburgh and controlled by the Mellon family. In 1945 it merged with Consolidation Coal Company, controlled by the Rockefeller family.
context_section_description: Near its beginning, the Pittsburgh Coal Company owned six collector railroads. The company operated the Coal Hill Coal Railroad, a 1.5-mile (2.4 km), 3 ft 4 in (1,016 mm) narrow gauge railroad until 1871, when it was sold to the Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon Railroad, which lengthened the line. The company assumed control of the Montour Railroad in 1901.
caption: Coal miner Louis Shafer, Pittsburgh Coal Company (1946).
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