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Building of Pan Handle Division of Pennsylvania Railroad Cecil Howell Spiral bi
Building of Pan Handle Division of Pennsylvania Railroad Cecil Howell
The Building of Pan Handle Division of The Pennsylvania Railroad
Cecil G. Howell
Soft Cover
Spiral Bound
206 pages
Copyright 1995
Contents
Map of the Pan Handle DivisionPage I
Pictures of Early PittsburghPageII
Brief History of PittsburghPage III
Early Engines of the P.R.R.PageV
Stations and Interlockings of Pan HandlePageVI
Arranged Freight ServiceWestward & Eastward PageIX
Block Stations and Towers in 1923Page1
Pan Handle Division of the P.R.R.Page2
Pittsburg and Steubenville RailroadPage4
Pittsburgh,Chartiers & Youghiogheny RailwayPage25
The Scully BranchPage29
The Chartiers Valley RailroadPage38
The Bridgeville & McDonald BranchPage44
Waynesburg and Washington RailroadPage53
The Steubenville and Indiana RailroadPage59
The Steubenville and Indiana Railroad Cont.Page65
History of Urichsville and Dennison, OhioPage73
The Wheeling Branch or PW&K Railroad Page 74
The New Cumberland BranchPage76
A "Ride on the PW&K" in the year of 1878Page79
The Terminal BranchPage84
The Cleveland and Pittsburgh RailroadPage87
The Bellaire, Zanesville and Cincinnati R.R. 'Page90
Old ticket stubsC.G. Howell CollectionPage 102
The Cleveland and Marietta RailroadPage 103
The Marietta Branch Cont.Page 109
Cincinnati, Wilmington and Zanesville R.R.Page 112
A "Train Ride on Pan Handle in 1878"
Pittsburgh, Pa. to Newark, OhioPage 118
Pittsburgh and Newark StationsPage 134
A "1878 Train Ride Newark, Ohio to Columbus,0 on the Ohio Central Railroad".Page 135
Things Found, while working on this bookPage 139
Reminiscence of Mr.W. R. Bell RetiredPage 148
The Widow and Orphan Racket of 1920Page 149
General Orders P.R.R.for Pan Handle 1949-1991 Page 150
Epiloge to Cambridge and Marietta RailroadPage 162
Downfall of the Pan Handle DivisionPage 163
Bulletin Order of December 3rd, 1993 Page 165
Pittsburgh Port AuthorityPage 166
More Pan Handle to be AbandonedPage 168
Author's Record of Steam Engines on P.H.Page 169
My Father's Roll of HonorPage 171
My Wife's GrandfatherPage 172
Pan Handle Division Joint FacilitiesPage 173
Additional Information--Moving DayPage 192
Train Orders Rules From 1901 Rule BookPage 195
Information From Fairfield County LibraryPage 199
Informational sources for this book Page 205
It all started, in the year of 1858, when James A. Howell, my grandfather, was born. When he was a boy, he took a job on the Pan Handle Railroad, and became a lamp lighter. This job consisted of keeping all the switch lamps clean and filled with oil. He lived and worked at Cadiz Jct., Ohio, and, when he retired, had 58 years of service. In 1890, my father, Cecil R. Howell, was born, and at the age of sixteen, began working on the section at Cadiz Jct., on the Pennsylvania Railroad. After work, he would go to the Cadiz Jct. block station and learn the Morse Code from the telegraph operator, and at the age of eighteen, became a telegraph operator. He worked all over the Pan Handle, and retired with fifty and one-half years of service. I was born, in 1929, in Oakdale, PA., and at a very young age, began going to different block stations with my dad. In 1947, after graduating from high school, I took a job, as a block operator, on the Pan Handle Division. I retired, in 1991, with forty-four years of service: Total service, of the Howell Family. with the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Pan Handle Division, was one hundred fifty-two and one-half years.
This story will begin with the building of the different railroads, which were to makeup the Pan Handle Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and finishing, almost to its demise.
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