Memories -- Excellent List

[Fred W. Schneider III]

Steve Maguire had some original Southern Cambria negatives that he obtained from
someone in the Johnstown area; one was the bridge at South Fork.  Alan Berner
may have it now.  It might have been published in Rohrbeck's Cambria county
book.

Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> 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