The P&WV Hi-Line

Tom, seeing your post about Longview and the stations reminded me, you will be at Cocoa Beach this year will you not? Are you displaying any P&WV, or Union? Mike in St. Petersburg

Gene, in the 22+ years of riding the high-wide loads everywhere I wish I had picked up more train lists and bullitins! I would get many, but would read them in the motel, then to lighten the load in t ...

Train lists, and bullitins from a central office. In the case of the N&W/NS probably from either Brewster, or Roanoke.

When the DS was at Rook, was the CTC board and the office in the same building that is still the W&LE yard office today, or was it up at the big two story building that used to be next to the auto ...

I guess I only met Dale Elder one time, and I think that it was only a few years before he retired. I had ridden wit the BBCX 1000 and 1001, both medium sized empty Schanble cars that two months earli ...

Ha! What would that be, 1973 or so when that depot burned. In the years before that when the place was vacant, I could just see one of the N&W MOW guys offering the desk to someone up on the hill, ...

See my reply on the W&LE bulletin board, under the pictures.

Thanks Gene, fo a well written and well remembered area and time! You did not mention the "slang" name of Horning while I was in the Baldwin-Whitehall School System, "The Patch". When you look at your ...

I got one the other day. No question that out of the box it is one of the most detailed and accuarte models ever produced in plastic! Thanks for providing the company the details to get it right! Of c ...

OK of the 21 tunnels 18 were mainline so three were on branchlines. I would assume two of those branchline tunnels were on the Donora Southern, but where was the third branchline tunnel? Oh wait, this ...

Looks like a regular switch key to me, reach me at mikerepka@yahoo.com if you care to sell it!

Anyone else have trouble getting photos to download from this site with a dial-up connection? In the case of these Bruceton Int. shots, most came up with red X's, and a few with about one inch of phot ...

The expenditure forms could be very interesting in book form, even if it was a softbound edition. For that matter, the train orders could be about half of the book, and the expenditures could be the o ...

Nah, it would not be for mainline detour trains, jut to sort of connect the dots on shortline interchanges, which is sort of neat and opens up a forward way of thinking and "looking" for new business ...

Wow, probably the biggest crowd around Bruceton since the last steamer or fantrip went through! You guys almost needed to form a photo line! Thanks for the quick coverage in this digital world!

Yes, I know about that origainal B&O line over the hill instead of Whitehall tunnel, but that was a long time ago, so I would be fairly sure that when the P&WV built the Connelsville line in w ...

Always been there! I would assume that when the P&WV Connellsville extesion was built, the B&O was there and a rather busy line, so a interchange was put in, probably about 1921.

I bet in the Alexandria and Arlington Va. area there would be quite a few retired, high-up military and federal employees with big buck pensions that would be model RRers!

Have only been there once myself, and that was about 10 years ago. I wonder how many rooms or offices are empty in that building? That thing is fairly big with 4 stories, and about 200 feet long or so ...

Very good choices for your shots! The Mingo Creek bridge shot, after the tollroad was built, to get that shot, is that sort of a grassy open hillside that you climbed to be at about the level of the b ...

Well I am guessing here, but I would say that that bridge was removed in about 1982. As far as a site for the Montour www.montourrr.com

That two car special train would be called a "directors special" for company officials and high ranking people that are with or associated with customers of the railroad. The past few years the group ...

Yes, that should be no problem to all. If someone has an interest then it is no big deal for them to apply by e-mail and tell a little about themselves. You have done a great job in keeping it off the ...

Would this be the only P&WV caboose preserved? I can not think of another, at least not anywhere near the line that they ran on! :?:

Thanks, good record shots! Well I guess the car is not "interchange worthy" That part of the branch had a passing track, how far does it go? I would imagine that the passing track is not still attache ...