[PRCo] Re: Gauge and Space

Edward H. Lybarger trams2 at comcast.net
Tue Mar 17 08:29:55 EDT 2009


And very clearly so.  Likewise, my 1962 "wide track" Pontiac used to do that
as I was navigating East Street (and other streets).

Ed

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From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of Phillip
Clark Campbell
Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 10:05 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Gauge and Space


The horse and buggy in this photo  'appear'  to be using the car tracks ala
the description in one of the URLs below:
http://tinyurl.com/PointBridge-19190505


Phil





> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Phillip Clark Campbell <pcc_sr at yahoo.com>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 9:52:45 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Gauge and Space
> 
> 
> I found some interesting comments about early PRC at this URL:
> http://tinyurl.com/Gauge-Space
> It mentions the inadequate spacing for double tracks and the gauging 
> used in Pittsburgh.  More information is available here:
> http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?c=pitttext&vie
> w=toc&idno=00aep1324m
> 
> 
> Phil



      







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