Re: Lean to the Left, Nellie, lean to the Right . . .

Right on, John -

Depending on whether you viewed the tipple from the south or the north - as in the old folk song, she leaned significantly either to the left or the right.

Here's a Tom Gildersleeve photo from October, 1960, which I have rotated to the best of my ability to get the corner of the warehouse (far left) and a telegraphone power pole (far right) as close to vertical as my tired old eyes could accomplish, and to which I subsequently added a (hopefully) vertical red line adjacent to the tipple for reference:

Photo copyright © by Tom Gildersleeve - ALL Rights Reserved.

Note that the pilot beam of the locomotive appears to be level, and other (supposedly vertical) poles also appear to be at right angles to the horizon.

Hopefully the above will serve as a reasonable starting point for estimating the degree of tilt involved.
(Which - IMHO - does not come close to challenging the{in}famous gravity-testing tower in Pisa, Italy).

- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/12/2016 11:12PM by Russo Loco.