[PRCo] Oil City counterbalance(!)

[Daria Phoebe Brashear]

And while I'm poking around for info... apparently the Clark's Summit
neighborhood of Oil City had an incline!
https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/16797079_10208502472342757_2644704943975829462_o.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=507d63dea30753cb1f7b46b634aeb280&oe=5B53AB0E

On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 10:56 AM, Daria Phoebe Brashear <shadow at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Aha!
>
> https://books.google.com/books?id=IeZQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA69&
> lpg=PA69&dq=%22oil+city%22+counterweight+trolley&source=
> bl&ots=5A7rtMklib&sig=zwOQJyxgZ4xnfVq1gpEhqqiVi3g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=
> 0ahUKEwjbrb2zpOfaAhWKr1QKHSfSAKoQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=%22oil%20city%22%
> 20counterweight%20trolley&f=false
>
>
> On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 9:04 PM, Daria Phoebe Brashear <shadow at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I was surprised to find out that San Francisco used to have a
>> counterbalance when I visited in March. Well, I'm thinking about it again
>> because I'm back in SF again today, and so I did some reading.
>>
>> Turns out Oil City also had a counterweighted trolley climb, apparently.
>> I had no idea!
>>
>> https://books.google.com/books?id=-lsyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA292&lpg=
>> PA292&dq=%22Morgan+Park%22+counterbalance&source=bl&ots=
>> xnXeSC7RY2&sig=i66tz1CschrNZkwoJiA7D-Jl_Rc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0a
>> hUKEwi4yOSQ6uXaAhXR31QKHTh4AcwQ6AEILzAB#v=onepage&q=%22Morga
>> n%20Park%22%20counterbalance&f=false
>>
>>
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>> Daria Phoebe Brashear
>> AuriStor, Inc
>> dariaphoebe.com
>>
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>
> --
> Daria Phoebe Brashear
> AuriStor, Inc
> dariaphoebe.com
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Daria Phoebe Brashear
AuriStor, Inc
dariaphoebe.com



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