Rails of dreams: The Youngstown and Southern Railway, the Pittsburgh Lisbon and Western Railroad, the Pittsburgh Coal Company's private railroad-- the Smith Ferry Branch by Wayne A Cole

by Wayne A. Cole

Casebound. "'Rails of Dreams' is a comprehensive railroad history of the Pittsburgh Lisbon and Western, the Youngstown and Southern, and the Pittsburgh Coal Companys private railroad, the Smiths Ferry Branch. For the railroad buff, historian, and those with coal and clay mining interests in Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio, Rails of Dreams has it steam, electric, interurbans, the Mack railbus, doodlebugs, diesels, the Niles Car Company, river tugs on the Little Beaver, passengers and stations, Ohios last interurban, the celibate Harmony Society of Ambridge, court hearings and the Smiths Ferry spy photographs by the Pittsburgh and Lake Eire Railroad. The short line is operating today as the Central Columbiana and Pennsylvania Railroad, the oldest operating short line in America, 1852-2003."

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