[PRCo] Chartiers Southern (was: i don't know who E.T. Brashear was...)

[galtfd at comcast.net]

Old news to Ed, I daresay - and I may have mentioned this before - but ...

As late as the 1970s if not later, PennDOT's map of Washington County had the route of the Chartiers Southern carefully drawn in, southward from near Eighty Four.

Don G

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From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams2 at comcast.net>
> Interesting.  All Greene County.  Not WP Rys territory either. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of Derrick
> J Brashear
> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 11:12 AM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: i don't know who E.T. Brashear was...
> 
> 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_W0
> QQitemZ300242382467QQihZ020QQcategoryZ95165QQcmdZViewItem
> 
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