[PRCo] Re: SHJ Web page update

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!!

> Dietrich, Robert J. wrote:

> I looked at the original photo and there are "cattle guards" across BOTH
> sets of track.  But they are defiantly NOT for stray cows, they must be
> there to keep people off the tracks and out of the tunnel.  The guards are
> on both ends of that white fence, on the 38-42 line it is that dark area
> just before the paving.  Could you imagine the lawsuits that this
> configuration would trigger today???

	I seriously doubt they would put up such guards for people  --  not a
deterrent at all.   Have no doubt about people keeping cattle and other
animals in the early 1900s, and close to the city   ---   quite common
in many places in that time frame.
	Today they have found that cattle and sheep have very poor eyesight and
the elaborate guards are not needed.   They just paint light and black
lines across a roadway to keep animals from straying across the
highways.

>> From:   Jim Holland [mailto:pghpcc at pacbell.net]

>> http://www.users.voicenet.com/~dietrich/SHJ/oldover.htm  looks like a
>> cattleguard on the outbound 44-48 line.   Sounds comical from our
>> perspective, but was probably quite practical in 1906!

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