[PRCo] Re: i don't know who E.T. Brashear was...

[robert netzlof]

--- On Mon, 10/20/08, Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net> wrote:

> ...The Chartiers
> Southern was the unbuilt
> railroad that was graded from near my place to
> Marianna...not exactly in
> West Penn Railways territory.

Well, yeah, but...

The grade which runs from Van Emmens to Marianna was constructed under the charter of the Chartiers Southern, and it apparently never went into common carrier service. However, I've run into other pieces of Chartiers Southern which were built and operated, either by the PRR or by the Monongahela Ry. Those pieces were down in the Brownsville area, well into West Penn territory. (Can't lay my hands on the book right now.)

It appears the Chartiers Southern had a rather vague charter which allowed it to "do stuff" all over the southeastern corner of the commonwealth.

Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob


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