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I'm not sure how you rate a firebrick "500 horsepower" but it appears that's what they did.
This was in an abandoned power house which once generated electricity for a streetcar system that ran to a long-gone amusement park. How many interesting niche hobbies have we hit on there? ;)
There aren't many firebrick makers left; once it was a massive industry.
This was in an abandoned power house which once generated electricity for a streetcar system that ran to a long-gone amusement park. How many interesting niche hobbies have we hit on there? ;)
There aren't many firebrick makers left; once it was a massive industry.
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You sure hit on a few of my hobbies! Photography, bricks, trains & trollies, history... If you're interested, Crescent was made by North American Refractories Co. of Curwensville, Pennsylvania. As for the H P, I can only guess it stands for Heat Processing. The initials show up a lot with thermal shielding and heat resistant insulating blankets.
The trolley that ran in my area never had an amusement park (there was a trolley park in Coventry, Connecticut), but they built a D.C. hydroelectric plant a few miles from here. The local utility operated it for whatever purpose until about twenty years ago. Only the slab now remains.
The trolley that ran in my area never had an amusement park (there was a trolley park in Coventry, Connecticut), but they built a D.C. hydroelectric plant a few miles from here. The local utility operated it for whatever purpose until about twenty years ago. Only the slab now remains.
You are correct that Crescent at C-ville was one of numerous operations consolidated into NARCO. I've inquired with my refractories expert about the 500 HP designation, though it probably predates his knowledge :)
A trolley without an amusement park??? Shocking. Seems like most in the mid-Atlantic had at least one!
If you're interested, search "Bay Shore Park" in Baltimore for more on the location.
A trolley without an amusement park??? Shocking. Seems like most in the mid-Atlantic had at least one!
If you're interested, search "Bay Shore Park" in Baltimore for more on the location.
New London, CT also had a trolley park, Ocean Beach, and it's still there and operating. I did a photo shoot of a great Cruise Night there a few years ago, before Flickr got so slow it was worthless. I think it was possible to ride from Willimantic to New London on that line, so technically there was a park available from my area.
The Coventry line ran into Willimantic as far as the current intersection of CT Routes 32 and 66 (not to be confused with US 66) where it stopped just one side of the Union railroad line. The Willimantic / Baltic trolley (Willimantic Traction Company) line started on the other side of the track and ran to points in much of Eastern Connecticut, Windham and New London Counties ("Foxwoods County", after the casino). Both shut down in the 1930s; there are two WTC cars at the Trolley Museum in Windsor. Oddly enough, WTC went through several mutations and is now Connecticut Transit Co. (CTTransit), who run much of the commuter and city bus service in Central Connecticut. I ride their buses pretty much every work day. I still think riding the trolleys would be more fun.
The Coventry line ran into Willimantic as far as the current intersection of CT Routes 32 and 66 (not to be confused with US 66) where it stopped just one side of the Union railroad line. The Willimantic / Baltic trolley (Willimantic Traction Company) line started on the other side of the track and ran to points in much of Eastern Connecticut, Windham and New London Counties ("Foxwoods County", after the casino). Both shut down in the 1930s; there are two WTC cars at the Trolley Museum in Windsor. Oddly enough, WTC went through several mutations and is now Connecticut Transit Co. (CTTransit), who run much of the commuter and city bus service in Central Connecticut. I ride their buses pretty much every work day. I still think riding the trolleys would be more fun.
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