Purity of Pittsburgh Railways

[brathke at juno.com]

After reading these exchanges, I hesitated making some comments on my
trip to Denver last week, but here goes. I'll go out of my way to relate
my observations to Pittsburgh topics:

1. I noted that LRV street turnouts in Denver are railroad-style - both
points move (there recently were some questions on the Pittsburgh list
about trolley track turnouts).

2. Roof headlights on the Denver cars look a LOT like the roof headlights
on PRC 1700 interurban cars.  Does some transit component supplier still
have the mold from the 1949 headlights???

3. Denver streets feature "stealth" catenary poles and rigging - about
1/10th as visible as PAT's industrial-strength catenary supports.

4. The Colorado RR Museum in Golden has a fantastic book store, including
trolley and out-of-print titles; they'll send you a catalog of the books
they have.  I bought a copy of Harold Smith's 1992 book, "Touring
Pittsburgh by Trolley".

Now I must congratulate myself on how I related these Colorado items to
Pittsburgh!

Bob 5/16



On Fri, 12 May 2000 16:50:07 -0400 (EDT) SaturnV at webtv.net (Bob Schmidt)
writes:
> WOW!  Does this mean that those of us on the list who may have
> vacationed outside the State, and who have traction-related 
> information
> or a nice story to share cannot, because of location relevancy?
> 
> I've not seen too much "outside" material since I've been on the 
> list,
> and only when references were made for identifying with local 
> equipment
> for the sake of comparison. 
> 
> Fred Schneider's material reads like a travelog which I find
> entertaining. It's pleasure, not business, and a nice break from 
> some of
> the ongoing chatter about local matters. Far as I'm concerned, if 
> you
> don't like out-of-town material
> there's a delete key on your hardware. Leave it at that.
> 
> As a suggestion.....Perhaps it would be appropriate for Derrick B. 
> to
> post a reminder for those of us on the List re policies of the PRC 
> Chat
> Site so everyone is on the same page.
> If worse comes to worse, vote on it. After all, we're a democratic 
> body
> of enthusiasts, are we not? 
> 
> Bob S.

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