The Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway began operations in January 1917, a court approved reorganization of the remaining assets of the ill-fated Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway. With its companion West Side Belt Railroad line, the P&WV connected track from Pittsburgh on west to Pittsburgh Junction, Ohio and to the east at Connellsville, Pennsylvania. Mainstay of the P&WV's business was hauling freight between the Western Maryland at Connellsville and the Wheeling & Lake Erie line at Brewster, Ohio. Passenger train service was in operation for about fifteen years and was phased out in May 1932.

Celebrates the rise of Pittsburgh's first transportation system during the years 1850 to 1900. This work began in earnest after the great fire of 1845. Within a decade after that disaster the first public conveyances were operating in the town.

One hundred years have passed since that Wednesday morning in June 1904 when a lone wooden railroad passenger car, pushed by a vintage coal burning locomotive, crossed over the new Monongahela river bridge at Pittsburgh to the new flatiron passenger station, officially connecting the Wabash Railroad to the city.