Ligonier Valley Rail Road Newspaper Articles
We have compiled over 1,400 newspaper articles that mention the Ligonier Valley Railroad, or related subjects. The articles were originally published starting in 1873 and our collection runs through 1995. Enjoy!
Ligonier Echo
Wednesday, February 26, 1902
Pennsylvania Railroad
Extensive And Costly Improvements At Latrobe
By the expenditure of $1,000,000, the Pennsylvania railroad will soon be able to scorn the speed restriction ordinances of Latrobe. By early fall of this year the Pennsylvania trains will be running over a route through Carney, north of the present location of the tracks, the grade crossings at Beatty station and three streets in Latrobe will have been eliminated and a new bridge across the Loyalhanna will be in use.
H. S. Kerbaugh of Philadelphia, who is doing the work of straightening the tracks between Wilmore and Summerhill, the largest railroad contract ever undertaken by one firm, has the contract for the work at Latrobe. Already the Pennsylvania trains are running between great walls of masonry at that place. Superstructures have been erected across the Loyalhanna and trestle work through Latrobe to make a fill and elevate the road and a host of men are busy with the great undertaking. Just east of Beatty great piles of stone are waiting to be called into service. The main line of the railroad is paralleled by narrow gauge tracks, along which half a dozen dinkey engines fuss and puff at the lead of long strings of dump cars laden with shale and dirt.
The completion of this improvement will make possible further shortening of the passenger schedule. The cut-off at Larimer has proved of great advantage and with the slow orders at Latrobe out of the way, there will be no necessity for anything but wide open throttles between Blairsville Intersection and Pitcairn.