[PRCo] Re: Oops

[James B. Holland]

John Swindler wrote:

>> From: "James B. Holland" <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com>
>> Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Oops
>> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:07:51 -0800
>>
>> John Swindler wrote:
>>
>>> Didn't car 1000 split the Carson St. crossover switch while backing 
>>> into the remnant of rt. 32 on a June, 1958 PERC fantrip? But not 
>>> nearly as spectacular.
>>
>>
>> Possibly done on Porpoise ---- but maybe not as back truck was 
>> *on--track* so to speak while front truck took the X-Over! Have a 
>> color photo of same. Car 1000 was heading inbound from the tunnel and 
>> backed onto the 32 and thus the X-Over. Were You There???????
>
>
> Yes
>
> Don't think John Baxter would allow that on 'porpoise'


Some things like this are staged on porpoise for photo-ops because it is 
a  *controlled*  split.       Have done things like that in SF  --  
4-track overherad for TCs on Market and we put one pole on each of the 
2-outbound tracks just to do it and so on!


Jim__Holland

> More likely suspect the photo stop was to be closer to front of incline.
>
> John