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

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Everyone outside the family mangled the name...PRR, PRCo, etc.  "Eman"
sounds like the original Dutch to me; every other variation is someone's
phonetic interpretation.  Spelling wasn't important then, just as it has
again become in the computer age. 

-----Original Message-----
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of
Schneider Fred
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 11:15 AM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: i don't know who E.T. Brashear was...

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-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [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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