[PRCo] Re: PRCo Dumps // Coal // Ash Cars

[Fred Schneider]

They did, however, have some much larger conflagrations when they  
burnt single truck closed and open cars at West Park and Castle  
Shannon.   As Bill Robb pointed out, a small burn would have hardly  
been noticed in those days.
  But that was simply the way it was done.

They did the same here in Lancaster right up until the end of service  
in 1947.   The favored place was down along the Rocky Springs line;   
the simply pulled used a dozer to pull the cars sideways off the  
tracks onto the fire.

In Allentown they used the funeral pyre until 1953.   There the fire  
was inside the Bethlehem Steel Company mill in the City of Bethlehem.

Now they need trolley museums to take the cars off their hands.   May  
I grin at my own attempt at humor?



On Jun 20, 2006, at 6:16 PM, Bill Robb wrote:

> Wasn't that the way of the those times?  Probably wasn't given much  
> thought.  After all Pittsburgh was a city of smoke stacks.
> "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams at adelphia.net> wrote:  I love the  
> Pittsburgh Railways records...they burned all-steel cars before
> they rendered them! The only wood on the dump cars was the cab  
> roofs and
> trolley boards, and the only other flammable component would have  
> been the
> insulation.
>
> Wouldn't have made much of a fire.
>
> Ed
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