[PRCo] Re: Accident auto and trolley

[Phillip Clark Campbell]

Mr.Schneider;
Do you have facts not in evidence here?  Editorializing
after the fact is a bit much isn't it.  Not only this email but
ones before and about a split switch.  People injured is
nothing to make light of.  A split switch would cause a
'possible' severe lurch; not only elderly but young could
fall and strike their head with serious injury couldn't they.

Split switch the fault of single point?  This has been mentioned
before and evidence is lacking here as well.  Only one point
is actually used whether single or double point.  Multiples of
emails in the archives have shown European tram derailments
some from split switches.  They abound on you tube as well
don't they.  Double point switches splitting.

Do you know that a car was following too closely when the
switch split.  It would need to be within tow bar distance of
the car ahead;  very dangerous following that closely when
moving.  Most split switch derailments I know of did not
have a follower to interfere.

Your caps are also evidence of your lifestyle which goes
before you long before the internet doesn't it -
screaming and hollering

Phil





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From: Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: Pittsburgh-Railways at Dementia.Org; Ed Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net>; Matthew 
R Barry <mrb190 at pitt.edu>
Sent: Fri, September 10, 2010 9:35:50 PM
Subject: [PRCo] ACCIDENT HUNTING A PLACE TO HAPPEN, FINDS TROLLEY.

THIS REMINDS ME OF THAT CROSLEY THAT RINGLING BROTHERS CIRCUS USED TO HAVE FROM 
WHICH ALL THOSE CLOWNS USED TO EMERGE.   I WANTED TO TITLE THIS ONE "ANOTHER 
DRIVER WHO COULND'T SEE THE BIG RED STREETCAR"  BUT THEN I BEGAN TO WONDER, WITH 
EIGHT PEOPLE PACKED INTO A CHEVY SEDAN (WITH THE SHIFT LEVER THE FLOOR), WAS IT 
EVEN POSSIBLE TO DRIVE IT AND STEER IT?  IF SEVEN OF THEM ARE TEENAGERS, COULD 
YOU EVEN HEAR THE STREETCAR?   ON A WINTER DAY, WOULD THE DEFROSTER KEEP THE 
WINDSHIELD FREE OF STEAM?  WHERE WERE THE PARENTS?   WAS TRUNZO COURTING ONE OF 
THE UNDERAGE LADIES?




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Pittsburgh Railways, Jan. 30, 1935, page 1



7 STUDENTS HURT AS AUTO HITS CAR



Collision Occurs as Group is En Route to School



Special to the Pittsburgh Press

MONONGAHELA, Pa., Jan. 30—Seven high school students and the driver of a 
Chevrolet sedan in which they were riding were injured today when the auto and a 
trolley car collided in the main street of New Eagle, near here.

   All of the students and the driver, James Trunzo, 23, of Gastonville, were 
brought to Monongahela Memoria Hospital, where three of them were treated and 
discharged.

   The most seriously hurt was John Townsend, 14, of Finleyville, who suffered a 
skull fracture.

   Beside Trunzo, who suffered a fractured nose, the others detained at the 
hospital were were Stella Holma, 15, of Gastonville; Isabell Jeannot, 16, of 
Finleyville, and Isabell Lekovich, 18, of Finleyville.   Those discharged were 
Angelo Romelo, 15, of Finleyviklle; Catherine Tropp, 17, of Finleyville, and 
Lewis Bartlett, 15, of Finleyville.