Re: (erielack) Trailers-on-flat-car traffic...

[Smtimko_@_aol.com]

Paul

Leavittsburg, Oh had a wooden piggy back ramp built of ties and timbers that 
was constructed in the 1950's and survived right up to Conrail.  I can't 
remember ever seeing it used for piggy-back operations though, but I have 
seen machinery unloaded at that location.

Sharon, Pa had a piggy-back ramp located between the Sharon, Pa single track 
and Ferrona Yard.  It was used daily and cars were forwarded mainly to the 
West in regular freight trains such as 187 or MC-3.  That ramp was also a 
wooden ramp made of bridge and switch timbers and it survives today at 
Wheatland, PA (on the former PRR) as a ramp to unload box cars for Bi-State 
Storage.  The storage company relocated it in the 1990's with our blessings.

There was a ramp at Akron, Ohio also.  I don't recall any in Meadville, 
Jamestown, Salamanca or Olean, but there MAY have been one.

smt

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