[PRCo] Setting Electric Turnouts on PRCo -- Message-id:--<39D7AAE1.2F3D at pacbell.net>

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

	On the 14th and 15th of March this year, we were talking about the
setting of electric turnouts on PRCo.

	The rule was that the dash toggle  ONLY  was used to set for a diverge
movement  --  the power pedal was  NOT  an acceptable method of setting
the turnout.

	Here is a copy of Message-id:--<39D7AAE1.2F3D at pacbell.net>, Date: Sun,
01 Oct 2000 14:21:37 -0700, where the same thing was mentioned:::::

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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.)"

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-- 
James B. Holland
        Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
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