Re: (erielack) Stoney Point, PA

[Smtimko_@_aol.com]

The Hot Box Detector was at Hanna's Crossing, MP 119.13.  Eastbound  trains 
stopped at Stony Point and set defective car(s) out on one of the sidings  
or on the PPG Lead.  Westbound trains set defective car(s) out on the  
Atlantic Mill Track or Atlantic Siding.  The paper recorder was located in  BK 
Tower, west end of Meadville Yard.  The detector, if actuated for  westbounds, 
would display a HOT BOX light on the EB home signal at the west end  of 
Stony Point and the home signal at the east end of Stony Point would be set  to 
STOP.  Westbounds would have a HOT BOX light displayed at the east end  of 
Atlantic and the signal at the west end of Atlantic would be set to  STOP.  
A switch key would have to be inserted in a controller box at the  signal 
for 10 seconds to clear the signal after the train was inspected and/or  
car(s) set out.
 
The PPG Lead at Stony Point was the old KOW (Keystone Ordnance Works) lead, 
 a WWII ammunition plant that was deactivated prior to my starting on EL in 
 1965.  The main track switch had been removed.  PPG bought  some of the 
land and built a windshield plant and the EL reinstalled the main  track 
switch.  The PPG Lead runs about seven miles back to the plant,  across and 
through several farms and local roads.  There does not appear to  have ever been 
a track chart of the line.  EL served it daily.  In  addition to inbound 
products, outbound windshields were shipped in 50 and 60 ft  box cars.  That 
particular piece of the pie went by the wayside in the  early to mid-70's (too 
much damage), but the inbound continues presently under  NS.
 
Also, near the PPG plant, JMM (Johns-Manville Manufacturing) built a large  
plant and makes plastic pipe that was previously produced on the EL in  
Franklin.  For many years, both JMM plants were in operation (the Stony  Point 
plant is actually called the Cochranton Plant, however it is NOT on the  Oil 
City Branch in Cochranton.  The Franklin Plant closed about 10 years  ago.
 
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