The P&WV Hi-Line

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I'd like to personally thank Rick Rowlands for rescuing a huge treasure trove of P&WV and predecessor drawings
going back to 1902 and donating them to the P&WV Technical and Historical Interest Group. We started packing and
hauling them from Youngstown back to Pittsburgh today. A quick sampling showed that the collection contains a bit of everything from parcel
maps of proposed property purchases for right of way to major structures and facilities.

This donation is a great addition to the documents already in hand and
will be quite the long-term task to sort, catalog and digitize it all.

Thank You, again Rick ,
The Hi-Line Recovery Team.
JR/JZ Gene, Dave , ED, and of course, Jayrod.


...and here's Rick's save account.

Glad to be of service. The collection had been stored in a baggage car at the Mad River & Nickel Plate Railroad Museum in Bellevue, OH for years. They needed to clean out that car last year and I was contacted about acquiring them. So I went out with the hi-rail truck and a Uhaul trailer, loaded them up and brought them back here. Then I made contact with the P&WV group culminating with them taking custody of the documents.

I was not able to be there this weekend because I was in Strasburg picking up another piece from the RRMPA to bring to Youngstown for restoration.

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Rick Rowlands
Steel Industry Preservationist, Narrow Gauge Railroader and Occasional Online Troublemaker