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

[Edward H. Lybarger]

There were more standard gauge companies in Pennsylvania than broad.  But
there were more miles of broad gauge track.

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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