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The current issue of MR, in comments by Tony Koester, mentions Wrights Station on the South Pacific Coast, with photo,  as shown in a series of articles in Narrow Gauge and Shortline Gazette, and states a similar scene was found on the NG W&W south of Pittsburgh, Pa.  A lot of train guys are in Pa., so probably a few of you are familiar with the W&W and even this site.  I once visited the Frank LLoyd Wright Falling Waters home in that area and remember some interesting trackage around a stream, trestles, abutments, etc. Are there any visual remnants of the W&W in the area, so it, like Cass, would make a detour going east for York worthwhile?  I assume there are books on it.  The Ohio River and Western has sounded as though there is not much of it evident to explore.

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That link took me to the BTS site, which showed an "Iams" station...Iams is not on

my road atlas.  Washington, of course, is on I-70 some distance before it meets the Pa. TP at New Stanton, a junction a lot of York travelers are familiar with.  That site

does list a book on the W&W (no surprise).  I also noted on my map that there is an

"Arden Trolley Museum" south of Washington, that I was unaware of...

West Amity station.

Deer Lick station.

 

The PA turnpike, Exit 180 Fort Littleton, would also access the EBT  East Broad Top Railroad, closer to York, PA. Orbisonia, PA. is a fair drive from the turnpike exit toward Mount Union.    BTS has also done a series of replica structures related to the

East Broad Top railroad. These structures were done in O scale, I believe, also S and HO.   There apppeared to be better demand for this narrow gauge railroad modeling,  the EBT is or was still operating.

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The EBT is well known, and I have visited it several times, even managing to show

up during a Washington's Birthday "Coming Out" and getting to ride their gas electric. Sounds like the W&W ran a gas electric in its later years, too, which were into the 1950's.  I see Amity on a road atlas, and that U.S. 19 appears to run from the two title towns, so route may be paralleled.  Guess I will have to detour and take a look.  Deer Lick station looks different and interesting, but probably does not survive?

 

The Waynie still has some surviving structures and trackbed. There's not much absolutely current, but this is from a few years ago:

http://www.co.greene.pa.us/sec.../railroad-legacy.htm

http://old.post-gazette.com/ne...20030720wacover2.asp

 

As for the OR&W, I can get out of hand discussing it. Try the Yahoo group:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ORW/

 

The photo section will be of most interest to you. We're on the east end, so if there's anything in particular you'd like to know about it, odds are one of us can help.

 

--Becky

I'll have to do some more digging, because I know there's a decent W&W site up. If you search for "Waynesburg and Washington Railroad" on dogpile.com, the " Images" tab will give you some to start. The W&W Wikipedia article also has a couple of pictures. This fall I tried to find out which weekend the Waynesburg fall festival was on, missed it by one day and therefore got no fresh pictures of W&W #4, stored in a barn at the fairgrounds.

 

There's a tentative effort at an OR&W driving tour coming in spring, or Bill Logan has a pamphlet out for a self-guided tour. It's a longer route than the W&W, but more easily accessible.

 

--Becky

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