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, August 9, 1905
Ligonier People Picnic On Mountain
Enjoy A Day Of Delightful And Enchanting Pleasure
Nearly 200 People Present
The P. W. & S. Climbs To The Mountain Top Amidst Beautiful Scenery And Enchanting Trout Steams The People Were Well Pleased With The Trip An Organization Was Effected And Officers Elected To Arrange For A Similar Outing Next Year
The picnic of the Citizens' Outing association of Ligonier held Wednesday at Laurel Mountain Park on top of the mountain proved a big success, being conducted by the picnic association. Special trains were needed to take the crowd to and from the park. A number of athletic features were enjoyed and a fine program of sports was carried out. This road will be completed to Somerset before the snow falls, as 500 men are at work on the Somerset end at the present time. The road is unsurpassed for scenery, mountain gorges and acres of ferns. The trip over the Laurel hill mountains on the Pittsburg, Westmoreland & Somerset railroad is a delightful one. As you leave the grand old historic Ligonier valley, surrounded by beautiful lands, natural groves and virgin forests and travel on this rural road which follows the romantic Loyalhanna, long famous in story and song, as it threads like an avenue of silver the somber framework of the lofty pines, or winds its tortuous way through meadow and gorge and ascends the mountains of the historic Alleghanies. One may travel the length of Europe and may explore the countries of the Far East; he may be satiated with adventure and weary of fresh sensations, but the trip across the Laurel Hill mountains to Somerset never fails to impress the tourist with a new sense of the grandeur, the possibilities, the immensity of this great republic of the New World.
Along this mountain road after leaving the Loyalhanna and winding up the mountain along the Linns run until it reaches to mountain top this picnic party of Ligonier people went full of life and energy ready for a day of unbounded pleasure and they were not disappointed. It was a model day, not too warm and not too cold for enjoyment. There were fully one hundred and fifty people in the party who went all loaded down with good things to eat. Everybody had an appetite equal to the occasion. All were delighted with the trip and resolved that next year there must be another picnic up the P. W. & S. to the Zufall place.
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