[PRCo] Re: Circa 1908 view of Pittsburgh

[The Grateful Fred]

Gang,
The newspaper link works if you click on the first line  (blue on my screen) and then copy and paste the remainder (from the second line) in the address line up top.

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams2 at comcast.net>
>Sent: Jul 28, 2012 4:01 PM
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Circa 1908 view of Pittsburgh
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>Yes, that was it.
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>-----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 12:12 PM
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Circa 1908 view of Pittsburgh
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>Ed
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>The link will not work.
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>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.  
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>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!
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>Dwight
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>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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>-----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
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>Don't know, but they went broke!  See URL below.
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>http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1126&dat=19081115&id=uKBhAAAAIBAJ&sjid
>=fGcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4083,4252390 
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>-----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
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>Bob
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>Well, that does make a lot more sense!
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>Did this company make current collectors for application on the top of tramcars, or support poles for the OHL?
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>Dwight
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>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:
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>> Customers of what?  The Wabash Pittsburg Terminal Ry?
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>No, the Pittsburg Trolley Pole Company.
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>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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