[PRR-talk] PRR-talk Digest, Vol 6, Issue 187

[rowilki at aol.com]

The Westinghouse plant at Sharon used large depressed center flats. The 
plant had a dedicated switch crew out of the Wheatland yard. The plant 
has long been closed


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Norm Bell Wrote in Message: 5:

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> What was the origin of the large Westinghouse equipment requiring 
schnabel
> cars? Items like generators and switchgear. On what branch or line 
was it
> located? Thanks, Norm Bell

Hi Norm:

Schnabel cars were used for shipping large generators, steam turbines 
and
possibly large power transformers. I can't imagine them used for 
shipping
switchgear.

Steam turbines were shipped from the Lester Plant (Chester, PA) on the
Chester & Philadelphia Branch.
Large generators were shipped from the East Pittsburgh Plant on the 
East
Pittsburgh Branch.
If they were use for power transformers, they would have been shipped 
from
the Sharon Plant in Sharpsville, PA along the Erie & Ashtabula Division.

Carl P. Izzo,
former Fellow Scientist,
Westinghouse R&D


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