[PRCo] Fwd: [PRR] [members at prslhs.com] The George Weaver Interview

[Daria Phoebe Brashear]

This is an interesting story, and one I didn't know.

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From: James` Boylan <104577.651 at compuserve.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: [PRR] [members at prslhs.com] The George Weaver Interview
To: bvolkmer at bellsouth.net <bvolkmer at bellsouth.net>, prr at prr.groups.io
<prr at prr.groups.io>


Thanks for sharing
You mentioned Mr. "Brownie" of Arden Electric Rwy.  I wonder if he was
working for PRR in Pittsburgh in 1954?  The museum bought what had
been an operating line of Pittsburgh Rwys. after abandonment, but
before dismantlement.  Thus, there was still overhead copper trolley
wire, but no more electricity in it.  To detect theft, someone
connected the ends of the now dead trolley wire over the museum's line
to a PRR signal wire on its adjacent branch line.  If anything got
cut, an alarm would display in a PRR office in the big city.  I wonder
if there is a personal connection with the 2 stories?

Jim Boylan
(215) DE 1-4564
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