Great tidbits!

[mrb190]

SUPER ILLUSTRATION of this topic!  Doesn't get any better!
What a task, though, to shove a car over like that?  Are you serious?
Wow.  I didn't know it was possible.  (or is this one of those
"nod-nod-, wink-wink, know what I mean?" statements?)\

I guess I envisioned a motorized repair truck coming out with crossover
tracks and the car was then pushed & pulled over to the other track.

Matt

Dietrich, Robert J. wrote:
> 
> Then again sometimes they would just shove the broken car over to the
> inbound track just as an inbound car was passing :).
> http://www.voicenet.com/~dietrich/SHJ/outback.htm  I'll bet doing that
> gouged out the street making it rough for those buses.
> 
> Bob
> 
>  -----Original Message-----
> From:   Jim Holland [mailto:pghpcc at pacbell.net]
> Sent:   Tuesday, May 09, 2000 6:38 AM
> To:     pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject:        Re: Great tidbits!
> 
> Greetings!
> 
> mrb190 wrote:
> 
> > . . . 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?
> 
>         Yes - that was / is extremely common.  Rarely anything in front of a
> broken down car to pull so the one coming up behind has to push.  If
> there is ever a possibility of turning another car to come in front of
> the broken down car, that can be done and has been done.  Either way it
> is a strain, esp on hills.