Dave, My email address is now <batha.karr@gmail.com>. I became interested in Dunlo because my uncle's father lived there and was a barber at the Ft. Stanwix Hotel in Johnstown. The question I had was, How could George live in Dunlo and work in Johnstown? George and Effie married in 1896 and lived in Dunlo, Cambria County, Pennsylvania. Uncle Charles was born in 1901. George rode to work in the passenger cars attached to the coal train that each morning took coal to the Johnstown Steel Mills and returned home the same way in the evening. Many people traveled back and forth this way. The narrow gauge railroads connected Bedford County to Dunlo and the people switched trains. Remember, lumber was a big business back then, before coal. The last passenger cars were dropped in the early 50's. We lived at the crossroads on top of Salix hill and I waved to many a passenger as a child. I have some articles and maps you might find interesting. I will have to dig to get them. Batha May Risher Karr -----Original Message----- From: pacambri-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:pacambri-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of pacambri-request@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 12:01 AM To: pacambri@rootsweb.com Subject: PACAMBRI Digest, Vol 8, Issue 82 Today's Topics: 1. Narrow Gauge Railroads (Dave Valko) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 09:45:16 -0400 From: "Dave Valko" <djvalko@verizon.net> Subject: [PACAMBRI] Narrow Gauge Railroads To: <PACAMBRI-L@rootsweb.com>, <batha.k@att.net>, <houston4@netcarrier.com>, <tracyann481@hotmail.com> Message-ID: <4922D94BFAB644B089D0E11E96BD2C68@DavesPC> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I just came across your 2003 thread regarding locations of the old narrow gauge railroads around the Beaverdale area in PACambria-L Archives on the RootsWeb website. Having lived in Dunlo all my life and run on the old railbeds for many years, I've been trying to find an accurate map of all the logging rail lines in the area. The maps/data in "Stemwinders..." is good but not exactly accurate. And maps that I've seen aren't detailed enough. Do any of you have any other information or sources of info that is above the "Stemwinders..." series?? Thanks for your help. I certainly appreciate it. Dave Valko ------------------------------ To contact the PACAMBRI list administrator, send an email to PACAMBRI-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the PACAMBRI mailing list, send an email to PACAMBRI@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PACAMBRI-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of PACAMBRI Digest, Vol 8, Issue 82 ***************************************

Hi Batha, In the north of the county, students and some teachers rode to school on the trains. Westover, for example, had only 2 years of high school and the students rode from Westover to Hastings for the last two years. Students from Thomas Mills [formerly Elder's Mill] rode to Patton, and students from Bradley Junction rode to the high school at Patton. Students from Cresson rode to Altoona to the Altoona Catholic High School. I am sure there were others. Marilyn Kline Washington -----Original Message----- From: Batha Karr <batha.karr@gmail.com> To: pacambri <pacambri@rootsweb.com>; djvalko <djvalko@verizon.net> Sent: Thu, May 30, 2013 12:40 am Subject: Re: [PACAMBRI] PACAMBRI Digest, Vol 8, Issue 82 Dave, My email address is now <batha.karr@gmail.com>. I became interested in Dunlo because my uncle's father lived there and was a barber at the Ft. Stanwix Hotel in Johnstown. The question I had was, How could George live in Dunlo and work in Johnstown? George and Effie married in 1896 and lived in Dunlo, Cambria County, Pennsylvania. Uncle Charles was born in 1901. George rode to work in the passenger cars attached to the coal train that each morning took coal to the Johnstown Steel Mills and returned home the same way in the evening. Many people traveled back and forth this way. The narrow gauge railroads connected Bedford County to Dunlo and the people switched trains. Remember, lumber was a big business back then, before coal. The last passenger cars were dropped in the early 50's. We lived at the crossroads on top of Salix hill and I waved to many a passenger as a child. I have some articles and maps you might find interesting. I will have to dig to get them. Batha May Risher Karr -----Original Message----- From: pacambri-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:pacambri-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of pacambri-request@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 12:01 AM To: pacambri@rootsweb.com Subject: PACAMBRI Digest, Vol 8, Issue 82 Today's Topics: 1. Narrow Gauge Railroads (Dave Valko) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 09:45:16 -0400 From: "Dave Valko" <djvalko@verizon.net> Subject: [PACAMBRI] Narrow Gauge Railroads To: <PACAMBRI-L@rootsweb.com>, <batha.k@att.net>, <houston4@netcarrier.com>, <tracyann481@hotmail.com> Message-ID: <4922D94BFAB644B089D0E11E96BD2C68@DavesPC> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I just came across your 2003 thread regarding locations of the old narrow gauge railroads around the Beaverdale area in PACambria-L Archives on the RootsWeb website. Having lived in Dunlo all my life and run on the old railbeds for many years, I've been trying to find an accurate map of all the logging rail lines in the area. The maps/data in "Stemwinders..." is good but not exactly accurate. And maps that I've seen aren't detailed enough. Do any of you have any other information or sources of info that is above the "Stemwinders..." series?? Thanks for your help. I certainly appreciate it. Dave Valko ------------------------------ To contact the PACAMBRI list administrator, send an email to PACAMBRI-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the PACAMBRI mailing list, send an email to PACAMBRI@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PACAMBRI-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of PACAMBRI Digest, Vol 8, Issue 82 *************************************** - - - - - - - - - - Search for more Cambria County information on our webpage: http://www.camgenpa.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PACAMBRI-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message