Charles E. Brake, who had grown to manhood in St. Thomas, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, was one of many small-town entrepreneurs across the land that caught the winds of change and moved with them to take America into the transportation age.  With his family by his side, Charles founded a company that would, in its successful 88-year run, accomplish far more than anything he could have imagined.   In so doing, he constructed his own American Dream and left a proud legacy of public works and community service for generations of Brakes to come.