Memories -- Excellent List

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Jim Holland wrote:

> 	And this PRCo list, courtesy of Derrick, is superb!  Most of us here
> are familiar with other trolley groups and lists and quite honestly,
> absolutely none of them compare to the quality found here.  The quality
> of information is excellent and posters stay very much on topic with
> very interesting contributions - this just doesn't happen on other
> lists.

The point of this list was to be well-focused and not overly verbose.

> 	And it most definitely must be recognized that Ed Lybarger is  t-h-e 
> strong contributor for information in regard to our questions.  Without
> his effort and expertise, we would have many questions but few answers!

Yeah, well, don't hammer poor Mr. Lybarger. I promised I'd go down to the
library at some point and I do intend to; In fact if there's still
interest in cataloging the collection I'd be happy to donate a computer
and build a database, and start working on populating it, but I have to
see what sort of task it's going to be so I know how to set up the
database. And right now I have 7 weeks to write some software for work,
and a paper on it, so I can present it in Goteborg, Sweden. And I need to
get a passport.. but enough off-topic...

I was looking over some annotated topo maps of the Harmony Short Line
and the Johnstown interurban lines last night that I copied from Fred (who
as I recall got them from Ed, or at least partially), and I wonder this...
(or rather, here are some comments:-)

Rohrbeck's books note that:
- the Johnstown and Somerset was graded all the way to 30. I drove
through the area Sunday when I was on my way home from Lancaster looking
for where the grading might have been, and found nothing enlightening. I
looked at the map last night with the J&S annotated on it, and still
nothing enlightening, really (it didn't really tell me anything I hadn't
figured out, but it was nice to have a confirmation)

- there was going to be a connection between the Northern and Southern
Cambria systems that never happened. I suppose I should make another trip
to Northern Cambria territory and try to figure out what was where, but
shouldn't this have been easy enough to do? I suppose both companies were
on weak financial footing, so...

- anyone have pictures of the bridge into South Fork? I saw it before it
was torn down, but that was before my picture-taking days