[PRCo] Re: Circa 1908 view of Pittsburgh

[Dwight Long]

Ed

The link will not work.

The only thing I found in Google, without going too many pages into it, was a receiver’s sale of the premises in 1908.  From the types of equipment being sold, it appears the company could have made either steel trolley poles for the cars themselves or steel poles to hold up the OHL.  

In either case they certainly were not around long enough to provide much succor to the Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Ry, which went bankrupt the same year!

Dwight

From: Edward H. Lybarger 
Sent: Saturday, 28 July, 2012 11:36
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org 
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Circa 1908 view of Pittsburgh
That didn't come through very well.  But I just Googled "Pittsburg Trolley
Pole Co." and picked the logical one.

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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
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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 

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[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