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Hm. Not John, but his grandfather here. The piers and abutments in the Loyalhanna Creek are the remains of a siding which crossed the creek a mile or less below Long Bridge. It was built to move heavy equipment to a gas well which was drilled there sometime between the World Wars. The story I heard was that at the time it was the deepest gaswell in the state/country/world (choose one), but that the gas contained so much hydrogen sulfide that it was unusable. Anyway, the plate gitder bridge was still in place following WW2, as I saw it on my few trips on the Liggie Valley. According to the 1915 Poor's Manual of Railroads, all the directors and all but one of the officers of the LV were Mellons. The one non-Mellon was the Superintendent. Yep, the same Mellons as Mellon Bank, Gulf Oil, Koppers Co. Bob Netzlof
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