Great tidbits!

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

mrb190 wrote:

> 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?)\

	Yes on the latter - you need a crossover to shove it over.  The car
possibly came from the 49-line where it would be easy to hook up two
cars back to back.  Or the broken down car could have been shoved into a
stub track (think there was one at the end of the 48-line) and then
another car would have backed up to it.  But that still doesn't explain
how they got back on the right track without a crossover!  And if the
car broke down at the end of the 53 line where there are two tracks on
the loop, they should have been hooked together both facing the same
direction.  A broken down 49-line car seems the most likely.

> 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.

James B. Holland

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