Phantom rails on Beltzhoover

Donald Galt galtfd at att.net
Tue Oct 3 05:04:00 EDT 2000


On 2 Oct 00, at 16:59, Bob Schmidt wrote:

> OK, for what it's worth. I viewed a pair of what could be construed as
> blacktopped rail patch seams running longitudinally on North
> Beltzhoover. 

Thank you, Bob, for a job well done.

> When I was a kid frequenting the Capitol Theatre at Beltzoover and
> Warrington, I remember North Beltzhoover with plain vanilla
> concrete surface and no rails. 
> 

Wow! Curiouser and curiouser. They actually put the trolley line in 
and took it out again while you weren't watching.

Well, anyway, this has to have been one of the strangest bits of 
field research in the annals of ferroequinology. I trust you feel it was 
worthwhile in a bizarre way.

And I am grateful to know that my eyes were not too badly off in 
judging the "gauge."

Don G



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