[PRCo] Re: PRCo Charleroi CH track

[Herb Brannon]

Check the attached photo from the website
www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?​11,2290294


*This photo would probably give us the answer to the double wire situation
on McKean Avenue.. However, it is so small as to be useless. The website
wants paid in order for me to get a large copy.............I'm not in a
paying mood today :-(
*

On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 23:53, Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net> wrote:

>
> Herb
>
> That's true, but it was usually, if not always, for directional running, to
> avoid trolley wire frogs.
>
> This was single direction track under normal operating conditions.  Even if
> it were occasionally used for northbound traffic, as it physically could be
> (although not signaled for such), the infrequency of such would hardly
> justify double wire for that purpose alone.
>
> I still think it's a trolley wire cum feeder.
>
> Dwight
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Herb Brannon" <hrbran at cavtel.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 11:25 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: PRCo Charleroi CH track
>
>
> > PRCo utilized double trolley wire on a lot of single track sections.
> Maybe
> > this was one of them.
> > On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 23:05, robert netzlof <wb3iqe at rocketmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> --- On Tue, 12/27/11, Lattner, Raymond <rlattner at pa.gov> wrote:
> >>
> >> > -- URL :
> http://lists.dementix.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/wvp331.jpg
> >>
> >> I'm puzzled by the double trolley wire over the track in the street. Did
> >> PRC and West Shore share the track but not the power?
> >>
> >> Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Herb Brannon
> > In Cuyahoga Valley National Park
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>


-- 
Herb Brannon
In Cuyahoga Valley National Park


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