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

Paul, Smt, List,

     I was in Leavittsburg about 3 weeks ago.  I saw the piggy back ramp 
that is mentioned below.  Short ramp with a short platform.  I think I got a 
photo of it.  On the end of the wooden platform there was a "notch" in the 
flat end so that the car could go right up against the platform.  The 
coupler fit in this "notch."   Possible there was more to this operation, 
but this is the only thing left.

Mike Riley
ELHS#3207


>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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