[PRCo] Re: Overbrook

[John Swindler]

Why doesn't anyone ask this question:  what was the previous work assignment 
for the engineers who designed the catenary?

And where did the engineers come from that designed the infrastructure?

Parhaps therein lies your answer.

JS

p.s.  there's another question, but I still have a couple years until 
retirement.



>From: Fred Schneider <fschnei at supernet.com>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Overbrook
>Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:23:26 -0400
>
>I think we all agree with you Mark.  I once considered producing a doctored 
>photo with a Pennsylvania Railroad E-44 pulling a coal train up
>the hill out of Washington Junction.  Ed Lybarger and Larry Lovejoy once 
>wrote a piece for "Trolley Fare" where PAT was awarded an Andrew
>Carnegie prize for innovative use of steel.  It is damned ugly.  Think how 
>many steel beams for houses could be made out of those cat poles
>... maybe enough for 2,500 homes?  (That would hold up a lot of books in my 
>den.)
>
>The other side of the story was simple.  They had the federal money to 
>build Skybus.  If they didn't give spend it, some other transit
>authority would get it.  So it was spent in Allegheny County on steel 
>catenary poles!   A basic government principal ... allow no one else
>to spend your money, and never, ever, give it back to the taxpayers.
>
>Mark McGuire wrote:
>

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