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

[Schneider Fred]

Gee whiz, gosh and golly, just what the world needed, another  
railroad to serve Waynesburg!

We could have taken a great circle tour.   Down on the standard  
gauge.   Back up on the narrow gauge.

Think how many more dollars the investors could have lost if they had  
also bought the steel and the ties and ballast.

Now the curious thing is that we had 106 million Americans in 1920  
and 305 million of them today.   In 1920 we could support a trolley  
line through Van Eman (barely) and we certainly could not today. But  
what happens 25 years from now?

On Oct 20, 2008, at 11:12 AM, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, 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!
>
> Well, here's a map, currently on ebay:
> http://cgi.ebay.com/1922-CHARTIERS-SOUTHERN-RAILWAY-Railroad-Route- 
> Map-PA_W0QQitemZ300242382467QQihZ020QQcategoryZ95165QQcmdZViewItem
>