Ligonier Valley Rail Road Newspaper Articles
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Latrobe Bulletin
Tuesday, July 31, 1928
Gasoline Coach To Succeed Train On Ligonier Valley
Making First Runs Today. May Lead To More Frequent Service Over The Road
A gasoline combination freight and passenger coach, which is to supplant the regular passenger train on the Ligonier Valley Railroad, made its first run today.
For the present it will operate on the schedule which has been in use for the train.
An additional early morning run, leaving Ligonier about 6:30 o'clock, and arriving at the local station about 7 o'clock, may be made, but this is entirely undecided, as yet.
The early run was made this morning, starting on the return trip to Ligonier at about 7:30 o'clock, and arriving there shortly before 8, taking back the mail and express at an
earlier hour than is customary.
No one except the regular train crew took the first trip on the new coach.
The same train crew which operated the passenger train will be in charge of the coach. Engineer Walter Byers will run it and C. M. Frye will be the conductor.
Fred Iscrupe, the fireman on the passenger rain, will be placed on a freight run.
The new coach is about 41 feet long and will accommodate 44 passengers, with a freight compartment located at one end.
It arrived in Ligonier aboard a flat car, from Punxsutawney.
It was purchased from the Punxsana (sic) Coal Company, which had used it in carrying miners from nearby towns to the mine.
It had been in use for but a few months, until the slump in the coal business made its use by the coal company no longer necessary, so that it was practically new when the L.V.R.R. bought it.