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

[Schneider Fred]

Apparently the railroad either did not know how to spell the family  
name or the family changed the spelling over time.

On Oct 20, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> 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!
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of  
> robert
> netzlof
> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 10:30 AM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> 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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