[PRCo] Re: The LVT Accident

[Fred Schneider]

NO ... THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH PITTSBURGH.  DELETE AT WILL.

And my interpretation was that the passenger car was where it should not have been because it was only 1/4th the distance from Brush to Acorn and the signal should have been stop at Brush.  I have a city rule book for LVT but not an interurban book.  I simply cannot imagine the rule of green / white flags superseding a stop signal.  Every rule book I've every read has some form of statement reading, "In case of conflict, the most restrictive possible rule applies ... stop and phone the dispatcher."

My notes came from the same source ... one of us changed 12 to 11.  Not a serious error.  When you look at the damage pictures, everyone in the first three rows of seats was killed.

I had great respect for Randy Kulp ... knew him well.  Also knew his father Orville who had been an LVT motorman.  I never knew when Orville died, and I cannot remember when Randy passed on ... certainly within the last ten years.  He had been in weakened health for a long time.  Randy did a lot of newspaper reading and research  in his life, and his interest in history (that was his college degree) continued long after his retirement from Bethlehem Steel.   Randy's sister married another railfan named Coe.  They owned a neighborhood grocery store on St. John Street in Allentown until they retired and sold the business to an Asian family.  I understand that they inherited all of Randy's slides and black and white photographs.

And the 30 minute service ... I understand that it was reduced again to hourly sometime near the abandonment of the Bell Route but I've never found a timetable showing hourly service.  It was Lester Wismer who explained that to me.  Lester also said that he never saw a car with respectable loads after tire and gasoline rationing ended in 1945.

rogertrolley.1 at juno.com wrote: