Charleroi Car House

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

	Can the gauntlet overhead at the Charleroi Car House in this 1952 photo
(http://davesrailpix.railfan.net/pitts/htm/wvp331.htm) be explained?  I
have a photo of 3811 beside the Car House but without gauntlet overhead
in a 1946 photo.  I assume it had something to do with the signalling
which operated by overhead contactor  --  or it was used to make
switching moves at the Car House easier while eliminating frogs in the
mainline for the southbound cars.

	How far did this gauntlet wire extend?  I would assume past the
southern end of the Car House which might make for some interesting
overhead at this end where southbound cars could loop into the yard and
/ or barn and in so doing crossed the *siding* leg for the northbound
cars.

	The Car House was not always a *siding* - don't recall and can't find
the source for the date when northbound cars pulled through the Car
House to await clearance for the next single track section.
	
James B. Holland
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