[PRCo] Re: West Penn

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Hi, Jerry,

I think the PTM Store may still sell Ben Rohrbeck's videotape/DVD of Vincent
Seyfried's West Penn movies.  It's the best I know of.  You might want to
send an email to vsm at pa-trolley.org and ask Lisa if it's in stock in one of
those formats.  Please tell her I suggested you ask her.

I was in McClellandtown yesterday, coincidentally.  Not much changes there.

Ed 

-----Original Message-----
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of Jerry
"MATT" Matsick
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 8:04 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: West Penn

Ed - was wondering is there a good  video of the West Penn Operations, I
have been reading and viewing the writeup in "Pennsylvania Trolleys"  The
Pittsburgh Region, as a kid I remember seeing the trolley trestle over the
PRR track at Uniontown and we had friends living in McClellantown, I was 10
years old and was fascinated then at the the line there, also at Scottdale,
Connellsville and Greensburg.   But to watch a video would be super????
 
Jerry Matsick
Trackless Jacksonville



--- On Fri, 3/27/09, Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net> wrote:

From: Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net>
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Bent Pole
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Date: Friday, March 27, 2009, 7:37 PM

I like blaming it on the retrievers!

Seriously, I don't have a "real" answer to this one, even though I was
there. 

-----Original Message-----
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of
BobDietrich
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 6:33 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Bent Pole

Here is a dumb guess!  The spring tension on trolley poles often causes the
poles to bow.  Could it be that this is simply bowing of the pole, it would
bow more in the center than toward the ends.  Or could it be weakened there
from so much bowing and appears to be starting to bend?

OR could the retriever yanked it down so hard a couple of times that it
bent?

OK Fred & Ed, take your shots, I'm only making guesses?????

Bob 


> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Ken and Tracie <ktjosephson at embarqmail.com>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 9:18:38 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Bent Pole
> 
> I have a couple dozen shots of Pittsburgh cars with bent poles.
> Here's a shot of car 1702 with one. I wonder what happened?
> Not likely to for an interurban using the Dormont wye.
> Perhaps back-poling in the shop or yards?
> K. 
> 
> 
http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/pat1702.jpg