05-09-2010, 04:51 PM
Well, you can always say Charlie meant to say 53. It's funny you brought this up because Kevin "railcop" and I plan a little trip to scour the old right of way of the PL&W and the Y&O railroad. We were trying to do it before the leaves came out, but someone decided to build a building instead. I guess we will do it in the fall.
There is a place just west of Elkton where an old road goes up to the ROW. Never knew why until one of the old timers told me they lost a box car over the hill and cut a road to get it back to the rails. I hope I can still find that. More and more disappears every year.
Our library has the old newspaper storys about the construction of the railroad and I copied them all in 1992, but I can't find the files. If I do I'll post them.
By the way, PL&W really meant Pick up your Luggage and Walk.
Charlie
There is a place just west of Elkton where an old road goes up to the ROW. Never knew why until one of the old timers told me they lost a box car over the hill and cut a road to get it back to the rails. I hope I can still find that. More and more disappears every year.
Our library has the old newspaper storys about the construction of the railroad and I copied them all in 1992, but I can't find the files. If I do I'll post them.
By the way, PL&W really meant Pick up your Luggage and Walk.
Charlie