[PRCo] Re: Circa 1908 view of Pittsburgh

Edward H. Lybarger trams2 at comcast.net
Sat Jul 28 11:36:53 EDT 2012


That didn't come through very well.  But I just Googled "Pittsburg Trolley
Pole Co." and picked the logical one.

-----Original Message-----
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org] On Behalf Of Edward
H. Lybarger
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2012 10:59 AM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Circa 1908 view of Pittsburgh

Don't know, but they went broke!  See URL below.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1126&dat=19081115&id=uKBhAAAAIBAJ&sjid
=fGcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4083,4252390 

-----Original Message-----
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org] On Behalf Of Dwight
Long
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2012 10:45 AM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Circa 1908 view of Pittsburgh

Bob

Well, that does make a lot more sense!

Did this company make current collectors for application on the top of
tramcars, or support poles for the OHL?

Dwight

From: robert netzlof
Sent: Friday, 27 July, 2012 14:36
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Circa 1908 view of Pittsburgh
--- On Fri, 7/27/12, Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net> wrote:

> Customers of what?  The Wabash Pittsburg Terminal Ry?

No, the Pittsburg Trolley Pole Company.

Oh, that's right. You wouldn't have seen the picture.

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Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob









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