[PRCo] Oil City counterbalance(!)

[Edward Skuchas]

But. Is that incline in Oil City a car on the gravity railroad system?
Ed
> On May 2, 2018, at 8:40 PM, Daria Phoebe Brashear via Pittsburgh-railways <pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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