[PRCo] Re: Map of Washington Interurban (9-12)

[Edward H. Lybarger]

The Chartiers Southern was graded and all the concrete work finished.  There
was even a tunnel under the National Road near Glyde.  But rails were never
installed...the PRR calculated it would be cheaper to take the coal out
through Monongahela and down the river because the grades were better.

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Donald Galt
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 5:03 AM
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Subject: [PRCo] Re: Map of Washington Interurban (9-12)


On 8 Feb 2007 at 17:40, Fred Schneider wrote:

> Thanks for posting them Don.   And perhaps the comments below will
> help Mark McGuire and some of the others from out of the area to
> understand the maps.

Ooh! Talk about a return on my investment.

I haven't time to go over all your observations right now, but you can bet
I'll
be examining them in detail soon.

After being without a scanner for more than two years I'm back in the land
of
the living. (Epson Perfection V100 - a generation or two newer than the one
I
dropped). Responding to Mark's request was one of the first projects in the
queue. Haven't yet scanned any transparencies nor done OCR, but everything
else
seems familiar.

If you look carefully on page 10 you will see a dark smudge marking one of
the
houses just north of Cheesman stop. This was my best guess, aided by a local
phone book, at the Lybarger spread in 1999.

Oh, and just west of there the "old railroad" is, unless I'm guilty of
conflation, the Chartiers Southern which was fully graded and prepared but
never turned a wheel. As late as the 1970s, the PennDOT map of Washington
County clearly marked that line. Or, rather, the portion southward from near
Eighty-four.

Ah, if only the originals of these 1954 sheets were available online
somewhere!

Don G