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From: Dennis Lamont
Date: Feb 10, 2012 11:51:55 AM
Subject: RE: Brooklyn Trolley Track
To: 'Jack May' <jackmay135@gmail.com>, 'Dwight Long' <dwightlong@verizon.net>, 'Frank Pfuhler' <pfuhler@msn.com>, 'Waybe Koch' <tracksofnyc@gmail.com>, Dick Hasselman <hassel8@comcast.net>
Cc: 'Fred Schneider' <fwschneider@comcast.net>, artwheeler@trolleybuses.net, 'Bill Vigrass' <billvigrass@verizon.net>, pittsburgh-railways@dementix.org
 
Heres the original.  This stuff was used all over the world.  Look closely at the market street video before the earthquake and you will wee the same thing ....complete with a buggy riding the rails
Dennis

 

Do you have a cross-sectional diagram of this rail?

 

From the photo I can’t make out whether it’s groove-rail or T-rail with a horizontal [flat] “flangeway”.

 

Dick H

 

From: Dennis Lamont [mailto:ge13031@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 9:31 AM
To: Jack May; Dwight Long; Frank Pfuhler; Waybe Koch
Cc: 'Fred Schneider'; artwheeler@trolleybuses.net; 'Bill Vigrass'; hassel8@comcast.net; pittsburgh-railways@dementix.org
Subject: Brooklyn Trolley Track

 

Thanks Franik

 RSK  I recall seeing a segment of this kind of rail on Superior right at Ontario St. the connecting track between the Detroit Ave and St. Clair loops, used only occasionally, once by a special 1100 from Garfield School, Lakewood, to Severance Hall and return.    I was on board!  We heard "Peter and the Wolf."
Bill.  
 

Attached is a fine example of Tom Johnson's patented Jaybird rail, rolled at Lorain Ohio .  Noted for it's flat tram is was beloved of teamsters and hated by interurban folk with their deeper flanges.  There are many interesting articles on the tests that were performed in Brooklyn in the late 1890s and the successful long life of the rail.

Dennis