[PRCo] Re: Allegheny Valley

[dfc1 at alltel.net]

There is also a marking on a church in Apollo.  Quite impressive flood damge from the photos I have seen.

DF Cramer
> 
> From: robert netzlof <wb3iqe at rocketmail.com>
> Date: 2005/03/15 Tue AM 10:48:12 CST
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Allegheny Valley
> 
> --- "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams at adelphia.net> wrote:
> 
> > The only West Penn line to quit because of the 1936 flooding was
> > Leechburg-Apollo.
>  
> That reminds me. In North Vandergrift a building at the foot of the
> ramp coming down from the bridge still has a plaque marking the 1936
> flood level. I went through there a few months ago and the marker was
> still there. It's in the side of the building away from and parallel
> to the river, near the front corner of the building.
> 
> As I recall, it's 15 or so feet above the local ground level.
> 
> Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob
> 
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