Track Switches --- Gleanings from *Trolley Fare* "Pittsburgh Points" by Edward H. Lybarger and Lawrence. G. Lovejoy

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

	Gleanings  from  *Trolley  Fare*  "Pittsburgh  Points"
	by  Edward  H.  Lybarger  and  Lawrence.  G.  Lovejoy,
			November-December--1978:

	"(Track switches can be operated to the diverging position in two
ways:  1)--the normal -and approved- method of actuating the toggle
switch on the dashboard, and 2)--the alternate and prohibited method of
depressing the power pedal as the car passes under the contactor. 
Either method causes the car to draw a current of approximately 60
amperes, and causes the switch to throw to the curve.  In the absence of
either of these actions, the switch will stay at or automatically be
thrown to the straight direction.)"

James B. Holland

        Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
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