[PRCo] Re: PTM Calendar March 2002

[Fred W. Schneider III]

If it is the photo I'm thinking off, it is the junction of the line from
Connelsville to Dickerson Run and the line from Connelsville to
Uniontown via Phillips.  There was one northward facing switch, and a
siding beyond it if memory serves.

On a pole?  Does it look like a little canopy or lean-to about 8 x 8
inches?  If so, it is the cover for a signal light bulb.  West Penn
signals were nothing but bare bulbs under canopies on poles, worked by
switches mounted on poles where they could be reached by a motorman
leaning out the door of a car.  Customarily there were about seven 110
volt bulbs in series across a 700 volt circuit, with the bulbs
positioned at sidings and at curves in between.  A signal on one side of
the track denoted you were following a car; one on the other said head
for the shrubbery.


"Dietrich, Robert J." wrote:
> 
> Folks:
> 
> To me the photo for March makes the PTM 2002 calendar worth the price.  West
> Penn 700, company houses, black dirt, and the road grime on that Esso truck
> makes me want to get out the airbrush.  Great photo Mr. England.
> 
> I have a couple questions about this photo:
> 
> 1. Is this a loop or a junction?  Since it is not near South Hills Junction
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