[PRCo] Re: Bethel Church Trestle

[Jim Holland]

Hi Mark & Matt!


Glad you like the photos  --  always nice to go back in time to view the 
TrolleyCars!!!


Don't know what it is called today but the road heading east does go to 
South Park  --  sure many motorists called the trestle unpleasant names 
before it was removed  --  only one lane of traffic beneath.     Rode 
over the trestle many times and over the shoofly many times as well.     
Believe there had always been an X-Over south of Mesta where DE cars 
could be turned if sent out on Fair trippers  --  this X-Over was used 
when the trestle was removed.       It was a single track shoofly used 
bidirectionally.      The shoofly was built while the trestle was still 
being used so they cut a switch into the outbound track for the fly.     
Less than a car length beyond the switch they cut the tracks and it was 
a steep drop off  --  Didn't Not Nohow like operating through that 
switch onto the shoofly  --  never any problems but the psychology of it 
was terrible~!~!~!
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Once the work was complete the double track grade just north of the 
crossing had a distinct zig-zag to it and I surmised that this was to 
allow settling // expansion // contraction over time.       Took Many 
Years but the zig-zag Did Disappear~!~!~!       Didn't Not Nohow like 
the traffic signal installed here which caused the Interurban to wait a 
length time  --  they did that at several grade crossings along Library.
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Early AM pullouts on Sunday would drop newspapers at this stop.      I 
would finish delivering my newspapers Very Early on Sunday and then jump 
on the TrolleyCars with an Sunday Pass for All Day Riding~!~!~!




Mark McGuire wrote:
>  My previous comments/question was meant for this photo. This is near the Mesta stop, correct?  Another question:  What was the name of this road before it became South Park Rd., or was it the same?
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> -- Jim Holland <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com> wrote:
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