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Ghost Rails XI Shenango Valley Steel by Mark A Cole Hard Cover
Ghost Rails XI Shenango Valley Steel by Mark A Cole Notice the bumped edges.
Youngstown Erie Railroad
New Castle
New York Central
Hard Cover
352 pages
Copyright 2014
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section 1 Erie New Castle Sharon Branch / P&LE Ferrona Branch
Pages 4-17Written History of Ferrona Branch
Pages 18-56Ferrona Yards to Blast Furnaces at West Middlesex, Penn-Ohio
Pages 57-71Pulaski to New Castle
Pages 72-86New Castle City Railways, Penn-Ohio
Pages 87-101 New Castle USS Carnegie Works and the Erie Railroad
Pages 102-105 Penn-Ohio Streetcar System to Mahoningtown
Pages 106-110 Erie RR Big Run Area to P&LE Interchange to New Castle Junction
Section II Sharon Steel
Pages 111-125 Written History of Sharon Steel Hoop, USS Farrell Works, Sharon Steel
Pages 126-142 Sharon Hoop Steel, USS Mercer Valley Railroad, steam era of Sharon Steel
Pages 143-163 Blast Furnace Operation, Open Hearths, Slag Disposal
Pages 164-171 Electric Furnace, Teeming and the Strip Building Rail Movements
Pages 172-183 Stora Kaldos and BOFs
Pages 184-200Blooming Mills, Strip Mill to Finishing
Pages 201-202 Sharon Steel Locomotive Roster
Section III The Northern Edge, Center Street, Youngstown, NYC and Erie RRs to Pymatuning Pages
203-215 NYC and Erie Railroads Center Street to Hubbard, Penn-Ohio Y&S
Pages 216-223 Coalburg and Hubbard
Pages 224-230 Penn-Ohio Youngstown and Sharon Street Railway
Pages 231-238 Penn-Ohio New Castle & Hubbard
Pages 239-251 Masury area, GATX, and Penn-Ohio carbarns
Pages 252-269 RO area, NYC and Erie RR to Sharon
Pages 270-281 Sharpsville Railroad, Sharpsville Blast Furnaces and the Shenango Furnace operations
Pages 282-298 Erie RR First Sub Division, the railroad under the lake, to Pymatuning Junction and GH Tower
Pages 299-318 Penn-Ohio Sharon City streetcar lines
Pages 319-320 A Shenango Conclusion
Section IV Shenango Color
Pages 320-352 A variety of photos from the above three sections
FROM THE AUTHOR:
Ghost Rails XI Shenango was perhaps the most difficult book for me, perhaps some up and downs in life, distances involved, perhaps because of the complexity: Sharon Steel, USS Carnegie Works in New Castle, numerous blast furnaces along the Shenango River, the Erie Railroad and the New York Central and their various abandonments and take over by Conrail and then NS, a touch of the Erie Extension Canal, and finally weaving the Penn-Ohio streetcar system into the mix. The Shenango River offered ghosts and I could not let them go; I am haunted by old rails.
Volume 11 does not cover the entire Penn-Ohio system; some of this will have to wait. Besides, it is covered in great detail in the fine The Penn-Ohio Rail System Story by Robert Korach. Volume 11 is complex and confusing in areas, the author suggest using the content guide and viewing a topo map for a more complete picture. In writing the book, I continually expanded the Erie First Division to Warren, Republic Steel, and then the Erie Second Division Pymatuning to Warren and then cut back and deleted. The history was snowballing. In the mean time, Gary Moser and myself made several winter ghost rail exploration trips through out the Shenango River sometimes really beating up ourselves. However, when the autumn days fall shorter into winter, I find the very early winter hours always best for my writing.
At any rate, I am very thankful I could assemble this important state line history. I could not have done it without morning and evening prayers and the Lord's help. For any errors, clarity on tough subjects, I take complete responsibility. I gave it my best shot.
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