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Harvey Nehgila wrote:

> Robert Gordon wrote in message <36A0B974.31AC6EB9@erols.com>...
> >A track map in the "Inside Muni" book shows wyes also at 30th & Judah
> >on the N, 35th & Taraval on the L and Broad & Plymouth on the M
> >(as of April 1981).
>
> Also one at 30th & Church on the J line.  None of these required front pole
> operation, however, as they all had frogs in the overhead wire that allowed
> for backpole operation when backing up.  (So did the turnaround at 11th
> street, but it was determined it was too risky to backpole there on a
> regular
> basis).  The front pole was needed to turn cars around at places like West
> Portal Station and Duboce & Church, and most of all, at the Geneva Carbarn,
> where nightly parking involved backing the cars onto 20 different tracks.

So in the past, MUNI used to backpole single-end PCCs in regular service.  Is
backpoling still part of day-to-day operation?  Or were the front poles added
to the ex-Philadelphia PCCs more as an ornament?

Here's a photo taken in September 1997 showing a postwar PCC being backpoled at
the 40th Street subway-surface portal in West Philadelphia:

http://www.netreach.net/~szilagyi/hughs500.jpg

--Mike Szilagyi