Posted by PJH on January 18, 2015 at 07:19:00 from (50.40.248.104):
In Reply to: Re: January17, 1929 posted by Deano1111 on January 18, 2015 at 05:57:21:
Yes - Chester is a nice town. We live about 20 miles or so east of there, so we get there often. Good people! My wife is actually looong distant relation to Elzie Segar, the creator of Popeye. Her claim to fame, ha!
A slippy clutch on a loaded truck would be a problem on that hill. I remember one of the toll booth operators telling about trucks losing their brakes coming down the hill. They'd lose some momentum coming up to the toll house, but sometimes roll on out on the bridge. Toll booth is long gone, thank goodness. Speaking of losing their brakes - How about the panic lane on route 3 on the east side of town? It scares me just driving past it in a car. Railroad crossing at the bottom of a long steep hill and nowhere to go but that awful runout. The local truckers respect that crossing and come down pretty slow. Sorry to ramble. .
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