[PRCo] Re: Interesting item on eBay Canada web site item#1154001827: PTC Badg...

[Donald Galt]

On 10 Jun 01, at 23:43, John F Bromley wrote:

> 
> Sue me - I thought everything but Johnstown was PA broad
> gauge.  Oh what an idiot.

We should all be so wise about our idiocies.

I think ... that 5' 2½" is the PA broad gauge, that Philadelphia and 
Red Arrow are the odd men out. Oh, and for something completely 
different, Altoona at 5' 3".

Of course you know that 5' 2½" floated down the Ohio to 
Cincinnati, which is why it was so handy for them to sell you all 
those lovely PCCs.

But there was lots of standard gauge in PA as well, not just 
Johnstown. Even in the greater Philly area, the P&W line is 
standard to this day. But so also were LVT (natch, since it used 
the P&W to get to 69th Street), Scranton, L&WV, Wilkes-Barre, 
WB & Hazleton, and most if not all of the rest of northern 
Pennsylvania.

Don