[PRCo] Re: Economics of West Penn Railways

[Harold Geissenheimer]

Ed:  There is the Tarentum Valley Daily News and there also used to
be the New Kensington Dispatch, same publisher.  They had their
own staffs and did their own thing before merger.  The Valley
Daily News was an excellent paper.  It was their photographer (on
a string) who took the photo at Kent State University of the
young girl leaning over the dead boy.  It turned out she was a 15
year old runaway from Atlanta and the photo resulted in her patents
finding her!  The Allegheny Valley was a nice place.

Harold Geissenheimer

"Edward H. Lybarger" wrote:

> And I didn't even get into depreciation accounting and the large charge-offs
> required when lines were abandoned!  I should also clarify one other line of
> thought...there certainly was a postwar economic downturn in Fayette County
> due to reclosure of mines and coke plants and exhaustion of the resource as
> far as the mine owners were concerned.  It was much more industry-specific
> than widespread geographically, but hit the Coke Region hard, as one might
> expect.
>
> As for the West Penn book...I'm stuck in the mid '30s at the State Library's
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