[PRCo] Re: HAVE YOU SEEN THESE?
Jim Holland
pghpcc at pacbell.net
Sun Aug 26 18:59:38 EDT 2001
Good Morning!!
> Bob Schmidt wrote:
> You are correct, Sir, and the "back track" was removed following
> discontinuation of loop storage service for the Allegheny County Fair
> cars about 1952..
> Had the photo been taken from a vantage point 30-feet on up the PRW the
> manual turnout for the loop would've been recorded in the photo.
> A locking device was installed on the manual turnout around 1948
> preventing playful culprits from diverting normal routing cars to the
> loop, (especially during the evening rush hour).
> Was I responsible for a lock being installed on that manual "flip over"
> switch? I believe it was late afternoon the suummer of 1947, when the
> operator of an outbound 44 Knoxville low floor found himself ploughing
> down weeds and hearing the arcing on the overhead.....
> .
> One of the listers
Heyyyyyy, NO harm done, right?!?!
How did you knock the trolley poles off the wire as a car was going
by?!?!
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James B. Holland
Holland Electric Railway Operation
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