[PRCo] Re: Tracks in a dirt street

[Phillip Clark Campbell]

> From: ROBERT R ROCKWELL <w3syt1 at msn.com>
> To: pittsburgh-railways <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Cc: AAMEmsn <w3syt1 at msn.com>
> Sent: Tue, January 12, 2010 10:42:22 AM
> Subject: [PRCo] Tracks in a dirt street


> This has to be a pix of Westside tracks  just South of the
> juncture of Westside and Pgh rwys or predecessor.
> This is the only place in Charleroi where the trolley
> tracks (either line) were built off center in a street.

> They must have used some sort of snow broom device to
> clean the girder rail. Note the dirt near the horse's foot. ??

Robert Rockwell
w3syt1 at msn.com<mailto:w3syt1 at msn.com>


http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/Westside%20Dr%20Smith0001.bmp


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Mr.Rockwell;


I haven't heard of girder rail cleaning before;  of course,
this is all it means isn't it -- I haven't heard of it.  Regular
operation would keep the rails clean;  if something too
large is on the track it is the duty of the motorman to
move it.  The marks we see are probably from wagon
wheels.  These marks are well outside the track as
well aren't they.

Railways did wash or flush streets according to pg.100
in Middleton's Time of the Trolley.

>From your description this would seem to be Lincoln
Avenue in Charleroi.  What is know of the other individual
companies absorbed into Prc?  Were their lines rebuilt
or relocated?


 Phil