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These are some pictures that I have from my Grandfathers collection. He worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad from 1936 to 1968. He retired from the powermasters office in Harrisburg. The first picture with the three different ones comes from a dog eared page of a magazine published in the early 60's about the electrification of the road from Philadelphia to Harrisburg.

The next picture is of my grandfather sitting at his desk in the powerdirectors office in Harrisburg.

The third picture is someone dangling from the Catenary,

and the fourth is a picture of the crew he started with on the Railroad in 1936 and the car that they used to maintain the wire. My mother tells me that by 1939 all but my grandfather and one other had been electrocuted. Including one they were pretty sure threw himself into the wires to commit suicide.

TW