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, March 19, 1902
Mysterious Surveying Now Going On
Does It Mean New Railroad For The Valley?
Engineers Are Busy At Work
All Kinds Of Stories Are Afloat While People Wonder A Survey Down The Loyalhanna And One To Bolivar, With A Number Of Others Is It For Coal
Some three or four crews of engineers have been surveying along, across, though and around in the valley for some weeks, and the people are nonplussed as to what the object might be. All kinds of stories are afloat but they seem to be mere guesses. One story is that it's the Beech Creek road, another the Pennsylvania, another the Baltimore & Ohio, and so on. A good idea will be to wait and see what will happen.
One set of engineers have been surveying a route up from Bolivar. They then surveyed around and about the town and then started down the Loyalhanna surveying a route along on the opposite side of the creek from the Ligonier Valley railroad. They came down the Arbaugh hollow east of Oak Grove and through R. M Graham's apple orchard at that place. F. S. Robb says there are two railroads surveyed through his farm. A great deal of
surveying and counter-surveying has recently been done in the valley north of Ligonier. What it's all about, that's the puzzler. People are wondering what the outcome will be, while everybody is anxious to know.
Amidst all this uncertainty we are glad to know that there are some certainties, in the line of progress and development, among which are the extension of the P. W. & S.
railroad to Somerset, the purchase and mining of the Pittsburgh vein of coal north of town by the Snyder & Oliver company, and the extension of the L.V.R.R. to this coal field.