(erielack) Railroad place names - off topic

["David Green" <davandli_@_ptdprolog.net>]

Listers:

Recently, there was a thread about streets named Erie and Lackawanna.  Well,
today I happened to be in Jasper (where the h--- is Jasper, you ask?  It's
about 15 miles south of Hornell, NY).  On my return north, on State Route
36, I had to do a double-take when I passed an intersecting highway:  It was
named MILWAUKEE ROAD!  Think the person who named that was a railfan?  Good
possibility, even way back when.

Local history:  Ingersoll-Rand is (or was) a big employer in the Corning
area, as well as an important Erie customer.  The RAND name comes from two
brothers who got into the pump business.  The first names of these two men
were JASPER and ADDISON.  The former begets the name of the hamlet I was in
today and the latter is the namesake of the village in the Canisteo River
Valley, on the Erie mainline west of Corning.  Also, the Buffalo &
Susquehanna interchanged with the Erie there.

I wonder if they will post this.

- - Dave Green, ELHS #1366

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