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

[Greg King]

It also flowed down the Mississippi to New Orleans and is still there
getting bigger!!!!!!

Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: Donald Galt <galtfd at att.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 5:13 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Interesting item on eBay Canada web site
item#1154001827: PTC Badg...


>
> 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
>
>