[From nobody Mon Jan 14 08:17:57 2013 Received: from mailsorter-101-4.iap.bryant.webtv.net (209.240.198.29) by storefull-162.iap.bryant.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Tue, 9 May 2000 10:26:52 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: <shadow+bounces@dementia.org> Received: from alycia.dementia.org (ALYCIA.DEMENTIA.ORG [128.2.35.149]) by mailsorter-101-4.iap.bryant.webtv.net (8.8.8-wtv-f/ms.dwm.v7+dul2) with ESMTP id KAA18839; Tue, 9 May 2000 10:26:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alycia.dementia.org (8.9.1a/8.9.0) id NAA25008 for pittsburgh-railways-outgoing; Tue, 9 May 2000 13:25:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hotmail.com (law2-f42.hotmail.com [216.32.181.42]) by alycia.dementia.org (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with SMTP id NAA25004 for <pittsburgh-railways@dementia.org>; Tue, 9 May 2000 13:25:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 35469 invoked by uid 0); 9 May 2000 17:24:37 -0000 Message-ID: <20000509172437.35468.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 164.156.164.133 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Tue, 09 May 2000 10:24:37 PDT X-Originating-IP: [164.156.164.133] From: "John Swindler" <j_swindler@hotmail.com> To: pittsburgh-railways@dementia.org Subject: Re: Great tidbits! Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 13:24:37 EDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-pittsburgh-railways@dementia.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways@dementia.org Matt commented: >I remember being in a local market on Penn Avenue, called Helen & Millie's, >and watching two 88 Frankstowns going very slowly by UP Penn Avenue. . . . >I couldn't imagine that the helper PCC had pushed the disabled car all the >way up from the strip district; Penn is a steadily rising grade, which goes >on for at least 10 long blocks (34th street to 44th street). But I suppose >it had. >The thought that crossed my mind at that point was that no one was out to >better service this situation to prove a point: the cars had to go...buses >were the "in" thing. Allowing this display to go on, seemed to me, in >retrospect, to be a perfect Dameron advertisement for his campaign to rid >the city of the cars. . . . > OR tell me folks, was it a common thing to have a car coming up behind to >push a disabled car to a car house? Maybe that was the most efficient way >to correct such a situation? . . . . the question here is, does anyone >know the most common method of towing/removing a disabled car off the line >to the repair barn? > > Lived in East End and later South Hills during 1960s and (vaguely) recall a couple instances of encountering disabled cars. Seemed the common practice was for following car to hook up to disabled car using drawbar (at rear of disabled car???) and push towards car barn. Never recall use of tow truck for this problem. Recollection of others?????? (Where's a rule book when you need one) John Swindler ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ]