Just a short journey in a streetcar line which now serves as a semi private road. I believe this line ceased in 1951-52 time period.
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Just a short journey in a streetcar line which now serves as a semi private road. I believe this line ceased in 1951-52 time period.
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billkolling says:
July 26, 2013 at 1:16 pm (UTC 0)
You can get a map at the Hermitage municipal building of rail lines and I believe the known coal mines
Stuffthats Gone says:
July 26, 2013 at 2:08 pm (UTC 0)
Didn’t want to drive in the grass…but thank you for the clarification!
DuscanyZands says:
July 26, 2013 at 3:06 pm (UTC 0)
You seem to be under the impression that the streetcar right of way ran down Stickles Lane (the road you are driving up in the video). Stickles lane was always there. That’s how we got from Route 30 to my grandfather’s house. As a kid I made that trip in a car with my parents a 100 times more more. Before we had a car we took the streetcar. The tracks, when they still existed, ran parallel to Stickles’s lane on the right.
Stuffthats Gone says:
July 26, 2013 at 3:23 pm (UTC 0)
great insights…thank you!
DuscanyZands says:
July 26, 2013 at 3:24 pm (UTC 0)
An interesting thing about that streetcar line. They never turned it around at the end of the line. The conductor would just walk to the other end of the car and drive it the other direction. In order that the passengers were always facing forward, as he walked through the car he would flip the backs of the wooden seats to make them face the other direction.
DuscanyZands says:
July 26, 2013 at 3:35 pm (UTC 0)
I remember this section of the old West Penn streetcar line very well. I used to ride it with my mother when I was a small child. We always got off right at the driveway in which your car was parked at the start of the video. That driveway incidentally leads to a house where my grandfather once lived. The group of mailboxes across the road at the start of your video is where there used to be a pile of ashes. The conductor stopped at the ash pile to make it easier for us to get on and off.
Stuffthats Gone says:
July 26, 2013 at 4:28 pm (UTC 0)
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MuzzleMike says:
July 26, 2013 at 4:52 pm (UTC 0)
You have some great / interesting videos ! I have been fascinated with the old rail ways in Mercer county around Sharon and I do not know where to start to find where the old beds where . Is there anywhere I can go to any old maps ? I got into it when I found out that 62 free way in Sharon was an old rail road bed and that made me just wont to find out where did it go and was there more beds that people go by and not know about them ?
rudant47 says:
July 26, 2013 at 5:44 pm (UTC 0)
I just wanted to let you know how fascinating I find your posts. I live in the city of Williamsport in Lycoming county, you would love the area, we have it all; brick streets still in use, drive-in theaters, old stone ovens, the abandoned village of Alvira, old bridges, old bridge piers, just an area rife with history I’m sure you would love it. I’m trying to get videos of these things and post them but I lack the proper equipment so the quality is none too good. Thanks again for your Videos.
dfhoho says:
July 26, 2013 at 6:21 pm (UTC 0)
I say record now, narrate later, peace.
Thatradomguy says:
July 26, 2013 at 6:58 pm (UTC 0)
great videos man.
Stuffthats Gone says:
July 26, 2013 at 7:07 pm (UTC 0)
the other benefit of a car is you get no wind noise!
Stuffthats Gone says:
July 26, 2013 at 7:35 pm (UTC 0)
very few of these videos are planned…they just happen in my travels…
dfhoho says:
July 26, 2013 at 7:38 pm (UTC 0)
looks like someone needs to work on getting an electric bike.