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

[Edward H. Lybarger]

For the record:  It's "Van Eman," not "Van Emman," "Van-Eman" or "Van
Emmens."  My family has known the Van Eman family for six or seven decades.

Interesting about other CS construction...any more detail available?  I know
such records as we have on it came from the Monongahela Railway.  The road
to Marianna never had any steelwork installed, either on the bridges or on
the road bed.  But they spent a lot of money on concrete!  

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netzlof
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 10:30 AM
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Subject: [PRCo] Re: i don't know who E.T. Brashear was...


--- 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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