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Reply to "Just what is this car in front of CVRR #81?"

Bob posted:

Martin, that is indeed a poling car and it is used for moving cars on the track adjacent to the one the locomotive is on.  The white pole is supported at a height that matches up with poling pockets on the car ends and it is pivoted in the middle so that it can pull or push a car on the next track.  Using a poling car was much less dangerous than having a brakeman hold a loose pole in between the loco and car.  PRR had quite a few of them back in the day.

Excellent!  There are so very few photos of anything but engines for the CVRR that anything else in a photo is something rather special. 

I would not have thought that the pivot for a pole in the middle of the car would have been strong enough for this purpose, but then that's something I've learned now.

Ok it looks just like a PRR SA class poling car! 

http://prr.railfan.net/diagram...ll&sz=sm&fr=

Now, I can actually build a model of this car.

Last edited by mwb

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