[PRCo] Re: Mile Markers

[Mark McGuire]

That's what I love about this list. I learned something new once again. Thanks Ed and Fred.
 And speaking of Nachods, perhaps that mystery photo is indeed a block on one of the lines controlled by Nachods. But where? Does the scenery match at Roscoe?

-- "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams2 at comcast.net> wrote:
The signal numbers on the Washington route were numbered consecutively from
Washington Junction, starting with 100 and ending with 156.  But this is
tricky in some instances, because the single track signals were not always
opposite each other.  So signal 155 was actually farther south than signal
156.  There were other similar instances, as well.

On the Charleroi route, the numbers were mileage-based, and, again, starting
at Washington Junction, were numbered southbound with the mileage from Grant
& Liberty downtown, and northbound from the end of the line in Roscoe.  The
northmost numbers, therefore, were 6.1 outbound and 27.3 inbound.  The
lowest numbered signal northbound was 0.3, just north of the Howard Street
station/lunch counter/general store, because the track south of that point
was unsignalled.  I can find no photo of Elco Loop showing a signal, and the
signal map shows it beyond the US&S system.  Might there have been Nachods
controlling this block?  I don't know.

The signals from South Hills Junction to Washington Junction had their own
sequence from 1 to 69.

Ed

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McGuire
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 11:36 PM
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Subject: [PRCo] Mile Markers

 Was brousing some photos of PTM recently and noticed the mile marker on the
signal at County Home Siding reads 151. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but
didn't the numbers on the signals reveal the mileage from Pittsburgh? If
that is the case, this marker would mean 15.1 miles to Pittsburgh. So these
can't be the original signals at County Home Siding, can they?  15.1 miles
would be approximately around Van Eman Siding. Were the signals taken from
there or another location? 
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