David Flickwir and the Tunkhannock Viaduct ?

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One internet website indicates that the contract for building the DL&W Ry's great Tunkhannock Viaduct (a.k.a. Nicholson Viaduct) in 1912-1915, was awarded to a firm known as Flickwir and Bush, Incorporated.  The website indicates that Flickwir was a "veteran railroad contractor" and Bush was the former [Chief] Engineer of the DL&W.
 
http://www.lvasce.org/lvhistory.php
 
The name Flickwir is found so infrequently that I immediately thought of David Flickwir, who was connected with the Shenandoah Valley RR and the early Norfolk & Western, and who later moved on into railroad construction business.
 
Does anyone know if the Flickwir of "Flickwir and Bush Incorporated" was the David Flickwir of N&W association?
 
As an aside, it strikes me how excellent have become the archive and research potentials on early N&W history.  Fourty years ago,  David Flickwir, Joseph H. Sands, Henry Fink, etc, were names we occasionally ran across in musty old books, but there was little possibility of finding out information about the men who bore those names.  To some person seeking a challenge, I would suggest the undertaking of an effort to research and write a brief chapter on these and other early Fathers of the railroad.  He could even throw in chapters on the Presidents of the N&W and its predecessors... stopping, of course, with the Robert H. Smith, as things only became ugly after the tenure of the Vererable Mr. Smith and there is no need to indulge in unpleasantness !
 
Now, back to the question.  Anyone know what "became of" David Flickwir and his ventures in his later years, and if he was connected with the Tunkhannock Viaduct?
 
-- abram burnett


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