[PRCo] Re: Mod PAT Train

[robert netzlof]

--- Bob Rathke <bobrathke at comcast.net> wrote:

> The WA&G was originally a part of the B&O's
> Pittsburgh-Buffalo/Rochester
> line...

Close, but no.

B&O acquired control of both the Buffalo Rochester & Pittsburgh Ry
and the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad Corp. in one blow at the
beginning of 1932. I think both became part of the B&O's Buffalo
Division. 

> ...but severe floods in the 1940's separated the Potter County
> line from the
> B&O mainline.  The connection to the mainline was never restored,
> but the
> B&O continued to operate the detached line where  several B&O
> locomotives
> had been stranded.

Another motivation for not restoring the washed out segment was that
doing so would have put two switchbacks back into service. They were
a large part of the reason the B&S went through two reorganizations
and still couldn't make money.

By the time B&O got control of the B&S, it was a line from DuBois to
Wellsville and Ansonia, and a line from DuBois to a big coal mine at
Sagamore. The latter carried a fair traffic in coal, the former was
just sort of there with very little traffic other than at the
northeastern end. At one time, B&S had a line from Galeton to
Buffalo, but that was abandoned about the time of the first world
war, well before the B&O takeover.

Bob Netzlof

Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob


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