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Re: (erielack) Concrete Tower Construction
Does anybody have the original drawings for these towers? They are all
very similar. The set or working drawings should have the information on
types of concrete used, types of tiles for the roofs, etc.
Ed Montgomery
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:21 AM, McKnight, Richard <pat_mcknight_@_nps.gov>wrote:
>
> Ed,
>
> By 1915 the DL&W had a number of electro-pneumatic towers, including the
> Mattes Street Tower (1911) and the old Bridge 60 Tower (1909). They
> continued to use the "Armstrong" type mechanisms where they did not have
> ample access to electricity and air.
>
> Pat
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:00 AM, <Dlw1el2_@_aol.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Mike
> > West Hallstead has been gone for a LONG time. Closed in 1933. It's the
> > tower, that when I saw a photo of it at the RR Museum of PA at
> > Strassburg,
> > spurred me to look into all the concrete towers, and what other ones
> were
> > built and no longer standing that I didn't know about. From all that
> > research eventually came the article in FD&S Vol 21, No 2. (April 2012)
> > You can
> > drive down along side the tracks to about where the tower stood, and
> find
> > no traces of it. Binghamton West End and New Milford Summit were the
> > other
> > two towers that were built about this time, closed relatively early, and
> > torn down early, thus very few photo's exist. Possible none, if it
> > wasn't
> > for the Glass Plate collection shot by Bunnell, Anneman, and Barry.
> >
> >
> > C2896 is looking geographically south. Note: date plate used on the
> > towers also being used on the smallest of jobs.
> > C2897 is looking east.
> > C2898 is looking west, and the pusher pocket track is yet to be built
> > against the side of the hill.
> > C2899 is looking east where the new line being constructed on the left
> is
> > diverging from the old line on the right.
> > C2900 is looking west from the same location as 2899 but atop the work
> cars
> > in the siding, which will eventually become track 4.
> >
> > You never stop learning from these images. I had assumed that the base on
> > the towers that appears white was from the use of a whiter cement, since
> it
> > still appears slightly whiter today on many of the existing towers. I
> > couldn't believe any white wash or paint would last 95+ years. In
> C2897 a
> > worker appears to have a trowel in one hand and a brush in the other and
> > the
> > whitening of the base appears to be taking place. Humm. Is he toweling
> > it on
> > or painting it on, or..................?
> >
> > Bob Bahrs
> >
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 6/25/2013 8:32:56 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> > MOEL_@_paonline.com writes:
> >
> > I'd have to dig around for my copy of Bob Bahrs article on the concrete
> > towers, but is this Hallstead tower still standing?
> >
> > http://lists.railfan.net/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-06-25-13/C2897.jpg
> > http://lists.railfan.net/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-06-24-13/C2895.jpg
> >
> > If so, does anyone have a more recent photo?
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Mike O.
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