[PRCo] Re: Interurbans - Drake Loop

[Fred Schneider]

Has anyone yet questioned the possibility of a wide right-of-way to make certain
that no one could mine coal under their bridge?

Or has it been questioned ... You want right of way.  I have a large chunk there.
Take it all or forget it? I'm not going to sell you enough for a bridge over my
house.

Or how wide a typical railway right-of-way was then?  (The Strasburg Rail Road, for
example, owns a 100 ft. strip of land.  And it still doesn't stop farmers from
planting corn right up to the highway crossings as if it were their land ... and it
probably is by virtue of usage over 150 years.)

Or what the county or township ordinances may have been then?

Just tossing out thoughts.  Some things never change.  Others do.

Jim Holland wrote:

> Good Morning!
>
> >> John Swindler wrote:
>
> >> I've never heard anyone ask this question:
> >>      Who owned the land under the north side
> >>              of Drake Trestle?????
>
> >> Again checking the 1934 Allegheny County plat map:
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