My immigrant grandfather who lived in Bradford, PA was a section hand on the Buffalo, Rochester, and Pittsburgh Railway better known as the BR & P railway. The railway had a roundhouse & turntable in Bradford where my grandfather worked. As a boy in the 1960s I remember seeing the remnants of that turntable.
Hi, I'm writing from the mountains of western Maine where we now live. As teenagers we used to travel up to the Rockland furnace from our hometown, New Castle, PA and explore the furnace and surrounding area. Since then we also traveled by boat and canoe from Warren down to Emlenton. There's a lot of history surrounding Emlenton, Bob Hope's wife being from there being one interesting aspects of the town. We lived in Philadelphia for about 10 years across the street from the Chew Estate (where Chewton, PA gets its name), and just up from the Emlen estate where Emlenton derives its name. I picked up a short book of the History of Emlenton some years ago where it stated that the first steamship, or it might have been the first steam passenger ship, I'm not sure, was named the "New Castle." Being from New Castle, this stuck with me. Thank you for posting these videos, I appreciate it, and am sure others do as well.
Good stuff. The AVRR is a lifeblood for our factory in Verona PA. We receive the vast majority of our bulk ingredients by ABRR railcar to make our nationally well known Daily’s Juice Products. So the next time your sipping a Margarita or Strawberry Daiquiri or see the kids sipping on a Little Hug or Sunny D you can give a quiet nod to the AVRR.
Thank you for the video, Rick. Well done and very interesting. I'm from the coal country of Western PA, went to college in Pittsburgh, and love everything about the region. Always great to learn more history of the area. Ted
Fascinating wow.....Hello from Petrolia. Spent a few weeks hauling stone to the Philipston Tunnel Project for Armstong rail trail Saras furnace to The tunnel and Philipston are being paved. They have redone the entire tunnel refined it and installing solar led lights. Rockland Dootwrs eddy are great places to explore and hike. I've always wanted to know what rail road went through Chicora Petrolia Bruin Parker and over the River across the old Foxburgh Bridge. I've always wanted to do a Oil City to Apollo or Pittsburgh trip on the rail trail. I took a little trip to Reesedale walked across the Shaw something rail road Bridge the other day. Local History Fascinating to me and I'm always wanting to learn more. Thanks for the great content.
Love the history! Would love to sit hear about more history, I grew up in Fairview. I love hearing history about the little towns around! If you ever read this get back to me!
My immigrant grandfather who lived in Bradford, PA was a section hand on the Buffalo, Rochester, and Pittsburgh Railway better known as the BR & P railway. The railway had a roundhouse & turntable in Bradford where my grandfather worked. As a boy in the 1960s I remember seeing the remnants of that turntable.
Hi, I'm writing from the mountains of western Maine where we now live. As teenagers we used to travel up to the Rockland furnace from our hometown, New Castle, PA and explore the furnace and surrounding area. Since then we also traveled by boat and canoe from Warren down to Emlenton. There's a lot of history surrounding Emlenton, Bob Hope's wife being from there being one interesting aspects of the town. We lived in Philadelphia for about 10 years across the street from the Chew Estate (where Chewton, PA gets its name), and just up from the Emlen estate where Emlenton derives its name. I picked up a short book of the History of Emlenton some years ago where it stated that the first steamship, or it might have been the first steam passenger ship, I'm not sure, was named the "New Castle." Being from New Castle, this stuck with me.
Thank you for posting these videos, I appreciate it, and am sure others do as well.
Good stuff.
The AVRR is a lifeblood for our factory in Verona PA. We receive the vast majority of our bulk ingredients by ABRR railcar to make our nationally well known Daily’s Juice Products. So the next time your sipping a Margarita or Strawberry Daiquiri or see the kids sipping on a Little Hug or Sunny D you can give a quiet nod to the AVRR.
Thank you for the fascinating history of the railroad. I enjoyed it immensely.
Thank you for the video, Rick. Well done and very interesting. I'm from the coal country of Western PA, went to college in Pittsburgh, and love everything about the region. Always great to learn more history of the area. Ted
Rick, Wow, really enjoyed your videos, can't imagine the work you put in. Thanks for the memories!
Fascinating wow.....Hello from Petrolia. Spent a few weeks hauling stone to the Philipston Tunnel Project for Armstong rail trail Saras furnace to The tunnel and Philipston are being paved. They have redone the entire tunnel refined it and installing solar led lights. Rockland Dootwrs eddy are great places to explore and hike. I've always wanted to know what rail road went through Chicora Petrolia Bruin Parker and over the River across the old Foxburgh Bridge. I've always wanted to do a Oil City to Apollo or Pittsburgh trip on the rail trail. I took a little trip to Reesedale walked across the Shaw something rail road Bridge the other day. Local History Fascinating to me and I'm always wanting to learn more. Thanks for the great content.
Great video. Thank you. 🐱
Love the history! Would love to sit hear about more history, I grew up in Fairview. I love hearing history about the little towns around! If you ever read this get back to me!
great video sir, much love from Leechburg pa
Curious, Kittanning to Oil City is around 60 miles, so 132 miles as you state, they must of done a lot of a zig zag route to get there.
Being Evelyn Nesbit's first cousin, three times removed, I also enjoy the history of western Pennsylvania.
8:28 that hat and clothing look very Vietnamese, but can see it looks Chinese too
such a shame as when conrail took over most of that line was abandoned.