[PRCo] Oil City counterbalance(!)

[Edward H. Lybarger]

How difficult would it have been in those days to drill a hole 900 (or 1000,
as quoted earlier) feet down for the counterweight?  Coal mines reached
several hundred feet down, but those were dug shafts.

Ed

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Phoebe Brashear via Pittsburgh-railways
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2018 2:10 PM
To: Western PA Trolley discussion
Subject: Re: [PRCo] Oil City counterbalance(!)

Keep poking, find answers. The counterweight was on Washington Ave.

https://books.google.com/books?id=vXtHAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP121&dq=%22oil+city%22++%
22trolley%22+%22weight%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi_tbjHkeraAhULkVQKHftXAdkQ6A
EIKTAA#v=onepage&q=%22oil%20city%22%20%20%22trolley%22%20%22weight%22&f=fals
e


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
>>
>>
>> --
>> Daria Phoebe Brashear
>> AuriStor, Inc
>> dariaphoebe.com
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Daria Phoebe Brashear
> AuriStor, Inc
> dariaphoebe.com
>
>


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