[PRCo] Re: vacated roads on the Southern Cambria Ry right of way

[Derrick Brashear]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Phillip Clark Campbell
<pcc_sr at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> From: Derrick Brashear <shadow at gmail.com>
> To: Pittsburgh Railways Group <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Mon, July 12, 2010 10:11:31 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] vacated roads on the Southern Cambria Ry right of way
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> Really rather curious how this ended up mattering, but:
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> http://www.co.cambria.pa.us/SiteCollectionDocuments/ZAAAADEJ.PDF
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> Derrick
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> Mr.Brashear;
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> Isn't this legalese for transferring responsibility of ownership 'officially?'
> This absolves the railway from the date forward.  It may have been
> part of the package when service ceased;  as the old saying goes:
> "Good to have it in writing."  These documents fulfill that saying.

The railway stopped existing in 1928. Apparently it was sold to one
Gomer Walters, who as it turns out lived through the 1889 flood and
would have been pushing 70 by then. Scrapping followed. His family
seems to survive.

> You seem to have special interest in this area;  do you have roots there?

My family seems to be of Brownsville, Steubenville and Pittsburgh, and
before that, Jamestown, VA. Some now in Kentucky and Texas.

No, the Johnstown-area interest dates to before high school, and at
this point I couldn't tell you why.


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Derrick