Population 7,197. During the twelve-month period ended August 31, 1957, the freight gross revenue was $1,421,577 and the passenger gross was $121,967.

Settled in 1799 on the site of Logan Town, which was the home of the great Mingo chief, James logon, at the confluence of the Beaver and Ohio Rivers and was an important point for travelers using the packet boots on the Ohio River. It is now a thriving residential and industrial community within the natural gas and coal region, and is the iunction point between the Bayard Cut-Off and the route via Steubenville over which freight trains from the Buckeye and Southwestern Regions move into Conway Yard.

In the front of the station at Rochester-as well as several others, including Freedom, Leetsdale and Federal Street, Pittsburgh-can be seen in the face of the station wall a white brick, either near the door or near the corner of the building, which shows the height of the water in the 1936 flood.

BEAVER FALLS, Pennsylvania

Population 17,375. This station provided a freight gross revenue of $4,167,131 and a passenger gross of $99,928 for the twelve-month period ending August 31, 1957.

Located in an area rich in coal and natural gas, the town was plotted in 1806 and has become a trade and industrial center. Industrial plants produce chinaware, and metal and cork products. The plates on which United States currency is printed are made here. Geneva College, founded in 1872, is located on College Hill.

HOMEWOOD JUNCTION, Pennsylvania

Junction point of the Pittsburgh and lake Regions. Just north of here-south of Koppel, Pa. Babcock & Wilcox Co. has over 400 acres of land under option adiacent to the PRR on which they are contemplating the erection of a steel mill.

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio

Population 5,195. A prosperous town sheltered by high rolling hills, was established in 1828. It is surrounded by rich deposits of coal, fire clay, building stone, oil and brick shales-natural resources upon which the local industries depend. Manufactured products include pottery ware, electrical refractories, automobile tires and tubes, and high-pressure steel tanks.