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High switchstand
Author: Richard
Date: 12-03-2014 - 15:14

A 1941 photograph of a Des Moines streetcar line shows a switch stand rising up to a height roughly that of the overhead trolley line, with a ladder leading to the top as one leg of a big tripod with the switch stand pole in the center and the metal flags at the top. Anyone know why such an arrangement?

(The photo is on a Facebook page for a closed group, and I don't have permission of the owner to reference it here. Perhaps I can obtain permission if it's necessary.)

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  High switchstand Richard 12-03-2014 - 15:14
  Re: High switchstand P. Kepler 12-03-2014 - 18:38
  Re: High switchstand Richard 12-03-2014 - 18:53
  Re: High switchstand Bill Maltby 12-03-2014 - 19:00
  Trolley Park, Urbandale WebDigger 12-04-2014 - 02:54
  Re: Trolley Park, Urbandale SLOCONDR 12-04-2014 - 08:29
  Re: Trolley Park, Urbandale Neil 12-04-2014 - 11:11
  Re: Trolley Park, Urbandale WebDigger 12-05-2014 - 00:12
  Re: Trolley Park, Urbandale SLOCONDR 12-05-2014 - 08:05


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