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Pittsburg Shawmut & Northern by Paul Pietrak Soft Cover PS&N
Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern by Paul Pietrak
Soft Cover
178 pages
Copyright 1969
Predecessor Railroads of the Shawmut in New York State / Pennsylvania, Pittsburg Shawmut & Northern, Shops, Wrecks, Locomotives, the Shawmut Mining Company, last days of Shawmut, schedules, timetables and miscellany, more.
Contents
Foreward I II
Dedication I V
Chapter One - Predecessor Railroads of the Shawmut in New York State 1
Chapter Two - Predecessor Railroads of the Shawmut in Pennsylvania 23
Chapter Three - Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern 37
Chapter Four - Shops 83
Chapter Five - Wrecks 101
Chapter Six - Locomotives 117
Chapter Seven - The Shawmut Mining Company 149
Chapter Eight - Last Days of the Shawmut 155
Schedules, Timetables & Miscellany 163
Acknowledgements 167
Bibliography 168
To say the Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern was not a very glamorous railroad would be an understatement to say the least. It really did not run anywhere in particular. The Shawmut, as it was referred to by many, never touched upon any large metropolitan areas, nor did it connect any towns that were not already linked together by long established networks such as the Erie or the Pennsy. I suppose you could say that the Shawl-nut's only lay to fame was the fact that it was in receivership practically from its conception to the day it finally went out of business.
But there was this certain undefinable atmosphere about the old Shawmut, call it romance if you will. This cantankerous, antiquated little railroad, which was really not so little, stretched into two states and totaled over two hundred miles. Even for its size this railroad still maintained the friendly, quaint and extraordinary qualities often found in the shortest of railroads.
In the pages to follow we will try to recapture the atmosphere lent by the Shawmut and preserve it within the bounds of this book to be related to its readers for years to come.
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