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 | Western Allegheny Railroad
Ghost Rails
Volume II
By Wayne A. Cole
224 pages | Hardcover |
Glossy Paper
16 page color insert
Price: $48
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Book Features:
A History of the Railroad and Coal Towns beneath Lake Arthur
The Last Steam Locomotive in Pennsylvania
The Coal and Limestone Mine of USS
Enon, West Pittsburgh, Cascade Park, Portersville, Butler to Brady's Bend.
| About the Author
I am a graduate of Geneva College, and a retired English teacher from Blackhawk High School. For twenty years I rode freight trains as a hobo across North America. In the summer of 1971, I rode a freight from Ellwood City, Pa. to Seattle, Washington, in 70 hours. Caught a 747 to Japan and rode trains. Then I boated to Siberia and spent 45 days riding trains in Russia. I ended up in Turkey. Five years later in Essex, Montana, riding the “Billy Goat,” I encountered railroad author Karl Zimmerman who was doing a story. Years, trains, jobs, adventures, dangers, fun, interchanges, it all passed. It was an education and a great blessing from God. Part of me still wants to roll nowhere one more time.
My first book Rails of Dreams, taking over three years, was my longest journey; it took me back to the ghost railroads of my youth that I knew so well the Pittsburgh Harmony Butler and New Castle Railway and the Pittsburgh Lisbon and Western. The Beaver Valley Railroad Company came next, and both books sold out. The Greersburg Academy and the Station House, a history of one of Americas oldest Academic buildings, 1802, that became a train station from 1883 to 1972, was my third. The fifty page paper back is available for $15, simply note and add to the cost of an order. By the time I arrived at my fourth book, I arrived at my title Ghost Rails; I was searching and writing about that which was gone---much like riding a freight train and looking out and searching and finding myself gone again.
Allegheny Railroad Ghost Rails Volume II involved winter hikes, continual discoveries, and new friends. I did not want the research to end. Ghost Rails III includes three electric lines Youngtown and Ohio River, Beaver Valley East Liverpool and Steubenville, and Glasgow Railroad. Plus, the BR&P Big Run Branch in New Castle, and possibly an update on the Smiths Ferry Coal Railroad. Ghost Rails IV will cover industrial ghost railroads as Carbon Limestone, Winfield Railroad, Aliquippa and Southern, Bessemer Limestone, and the Mercer Valley RR. Ghost Rails V constitutes Meadville, Conneaut and Limestone, Jackson Coal RR, Koppel Car Company, Wampum Furnace, and the Sharon Railway.
I am very privileged to have my grandson Adair Gwilliam make these trip with me in all types of inclement weather; he is now sixteen and has been exploring since he could walk. Adair lives with my wife Eileen and me in a log home I constructed in South Beaver Township. All three of us attend the Chippewa Evangelical Free Church, a solid cornerstone in our lives.
Copyright 2006 Wayne A. Cole
All Rights Reserved. No part of this book including web elements and images may be reproduced by any means or appear in any media without permission from the author and publisher, Wayne A. Cole, except for reviews or excerpts. |
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