[PRCo] Re: PTM move

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Pictures!  we need Pictures!  In a message dated 7/7/2004 9:25:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Harold Geissenheimer <transitmgr2 at earthlink.net> writes:

>Many thanks to each of you who helped move these cars.
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>You are the real strength of the museum.
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>Speaking for those members who live elsewhere..Once gain thanks.
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>Harold Geissenheimer
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>Dennis F. Cramer wrote:
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>>    Things went smoothly today as the big move continued with the move of
>>P&W 209 and Columbus 067.  Mon Valley 3000 was already in place in the back
>>of the trolley display building on the dual gauge track.  The bullet car was
>>next to go and Jim Lilly had already had his trailer in place and the ramp
>>was built when I arrived.  There was a lot of help and good there was as the
>>track sections for the ramp get heavy after a while and we had to build and
>>unbuild the ramp at each end of the move.
>>    A crew of Bruce, Sarah & Laura Wells, Toni DeSensi, Jack Sutherland, Bob
>>Jordan, Dave Hamley, Chuck & Jason Rompala, Jeff King and myself (if I left
>>anyone out, I apologize) got the car up on the trailer and then some of us
>>headed to the new building to prepare for unloading.  Jim Lilly is a master
>>at lining things up and once the ramp was rebuilt it was time to unload the
>>car, except for one thing; it would not roll.  Jim backed his cab up to the
>>coupler of 209 and I held a board to ease the bump and the car rolled half
>>way off the trailer and stopped again.  This time we hooked a chain to the
>>other end of the car and pulled it off with a fork lift.  Once it started to
>>roll this time, it rolled very freely.  Almost too freely as Jeff King had
>>to floor the forklift and Sarah Wells was cranking the handbrake to stop the
>>car.  It did and is now in place.
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>>    While we were doing this, the rest of the crew was moving the box cars
>>out of the way so 067 could be extracted.  Anybody want some boxcars??  We
>>got back, 067 was untarped and loaded on the truck.  This flatcar with a
>>center cab was much lighter and got a good sweeping before we went to the
>>new building.  To put the better of the two sides out to the aisle in the
>>building, Jim had to back in and then unload.  This car rolled much more
>>freely than the bullet car and is probably spending its first night indoors
>>ever.
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>>    Tomorrow they begin moving some of the broad gauge cars and at least
>>they will not have to go out on the highway.  They will move the cars to a
>>temporary ramp to load them on the truck to take them to the trolley display
>>building.
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>>    The Market Street Elevated car,  the West Penn center entrance car and
>>Red Arrow 07 freight motor are on schedule to go in next.
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>>    The cars seem a lot smaller in this rather huge building.  Bruce told me
>>it is basically designed to hold 7 50 foot cars on each of 4 tracks.  The
>>next step of the destination is coming true.
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>>    By the time I get back from eastern PA, this part of the job will be
>>done, but there is lots more to do.
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>>Dennis F. Cramer--Teacher-Trombonist-Historian-Conductor
>>www.geocities.com/armconband
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