[PRCo] Re: Not a streetcar, BUT

[Schneider Fred]

Nor does Bing maps label creek names.


On Feb 13, 2010, at 9:02 AM, Dennis Fred Cramer wrote:

> The infamous "glass waste ballast" up to Lenape Park, I have to assume
> Tub Mill Run is the creek to the south of Ford City and the right of
> way is to the north of the creek? Google doesn't label creek names,
> but it seems to fit my memory of the line (went through Ford City from
> Kittanning, *then* up to Lenape Park)
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> Tub Mill run starts just south of the Ford City Bridge and the  
> right of way
> was to the north of it.  The line began at the junction of  
> Cowanshannock
> Creek and the Allegheny River, north of Kittanning, went in to  
> Kittanning,
> crossed over the PRR and then went south through Ford City and up  
> the hill
> to Lenape Park.  There is still lots of ballast there.  My science  
> teacher
> friends used to have to explain to disappointed students that it  
> was not
> quartz, but "pot glass".  The waste beaten by laborers from the  
> inside of
> the giant caldrons used in the glass making process at what was  
> once the
> "World's Largest Plate Glass Factory".
>
> The right of way is now a well used path (when the snow is gone) up  
> the
> hill.
>
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>           Dennis F. Cramer
> http://home.windstream.net/dfc1
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