[PRCo] Re: West Penn

[Mark McGuire]

 I was talking to a widow on my route the other day who had recently lost her daughter in a car accident. I noticed a slight Pittsburgh accent and asked if she was from "The Burgh". She replied that she was from Scottdale, and had used WPR. Small world indeed. 

---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Jerry \"MATT\" Matsick" <mtoytrain at bellsouth.net>
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: West Penn
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:04:15 -0700 (PDT)

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 



      

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