Ligonier Valley Rail Road Newspaper Articles
We have compiled over 1,400 newspaper articles that mention the Ligonier Valley Railroad, or related subjects. The articles were originally published starting in 1873 and our collection runs through 1995. Enjoy!
Ligonier Echo
Wednesday, March 28, 1900
A Famous Run
An Excellent Record For Fast Running
Engineer Daniels of the Pittsburg, Westmoreland and Somerset railroad, made a famous run last Wednesday. The Echo Scribe was informed of the fast run that engineer Daniels made with his engine and ten log cars, a run of over eight miles in a little less than twenty-five minutes from the steep mountains above Rector to the L.V.R.R. station at Ligonier. Engineer Daniels had a passenger who wanted to make the 4:40 passenger train on the L.V.R.R. for Latrobe, and he had just twenty-five minutes from where he started to land his passenger in time for the passenger train on the L.V.R.R. This is considered a record breaker for fast running considering the shape the road bed of the P. W. & S. is now in, as it is just a new road over which trains have been running only a few weeks.