Making Connections History Of The Ironton Railroad by Richard Metro Bach

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Making Connections History Of The Ironton Railroad by Richard Metro Bach
 
Making Connections History Of The Ironton Railroad by Richard Metro Bach
Hard Cover
248 pages with a 6 page fold out
Copyright 2013

Contents
Acknowledgements6
Introduction8
Chapter I Setting the Stage (1826--1859)10
Chapter II The Road to Ironton (1860-1864)20
Chapter III Mr. Kennedy's Road (1865-1881)36
Chapter IV Earth, Wind and Fire (1882-1897)55
Chapter V The Turn of a Century (1897-1919)91
Chapter VI A Day for Diamonds, Stones and White Lead (1920-1948) 143
Chapter VII The Skeleton Keys; Diesels to Demise (1948-1976)I88
Chapter VIII The Ironton in Color202
Chapter IX Curtain Call (1976-1986223
Chapter X Conrail in Color229
Chapter XI Close the Books (1976-1988)238
Chapter XII Strike the Colors (1989-1996)239
Chapter XIII Serving the Public Interest (1996-Present)241
History of Equipment and Roster242
Bibliography247


Introduction
In 1905, an automobile, driven by a Whitehall Township physician, was speeding to the Village of Egypt, Pennsylvania when it was struck by a locomotive of the Ironton Railroad Company. The doctor and his passenger, an eminent Philadelphia specialist, whilst on their way to a house-call, were thrown from the car. The primitive horselens carriage was hurled to the roadside. Not just too hunks of metal, but indeed the symbols of two different eras collided at that moment. This is the story of one of those symbols, the one representing an earlier era, the Ironton Railroad Company.
In order to tell the story of the Ironton Railroad, we must come to know a little of the Lehigh Valley region, where the railroad was built. Before the rumbling steam engines of the Ironton arrived, even long before the European set foot on the land, the Lehigh Valley of eastern Pennsylvania, was home to the Lenni Lenape, an Algonquin Native American tribe referred to by European Americans as the Delaware. The Lenape called the left branch of the Delaware River, the Lecha. As the Lenape were compelled to move elsewhere, the government of Provincial British Pennsylvania permitted German immigrants to settle the fertile area of the Lecha, which they called the Lecha Thal. When English speaking colonists arrived, they changed Lecha to Lehigh, and translated the German word Thal to Valley.

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