<div dir="ltr">Note also this pic from the archive:<br><a href="http://lists.dementix.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/03-Track%20Drake%20Loop%20Construct%201953xxxx%2001.jpg">http://lists.dementix.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/03-Track%20Drake%20Loop%20Construct%201953xxxx%2001.jpg</a><br>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Edward H. Lybarger</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:trams2@comcast.net">trams2@comcast.net</a>></span><br>
Date: Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 7:44 PM<br>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Why was the Drake Loop Built?<br>To: <a href="mailto:pittsburgh-railways@dementia.org">pittsburgh-railways@dementia.org</a><br><br><br>Walther Wye opened April 20, 1953. Simmons Loop opened June 29, 1953 (so<br>
for nine days all cars turned at (West) Library. Drake Loop was placed in<br>
service September 25, 1953.<br>
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From: <a href="mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce@lists.dementia.org">pittsburgh-railways-bounce@lists.dementia.org</a><br>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce@lists.dementia.org">pittsburgh-railways-bounce@lists.dementia.org</a>]On Behalf Of Fred<br>
Schneider<br>
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 5:13 PM<br>
To: <a href="mailto:pittsburgh-railways@dementia.org">pittsburgh-railways@dementia.org</a><br>
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Why was the Drake Loop Built?<br>
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</div><div class=""><div class="h5">I'm not sure if you understand the sequence here Dennis. PRC built<br>
a wye at Walther stop in March of 1953 and in April they reduced<br>
service beyond that wye to every hour. Service was provided as far<br>
as Walther (Drake Wye) every 30 minutes. (At the same schedule<br>
change, Charleroi cars went to half hourly to West Library Loop at<br>
hourly beyond West Library.) Then the loop was constructed under<br>
the viaduct at Drake stop. Ed might have the exact date that the<br>
loop opened but I think it might have been shortly after the August<br>
29, 1953 abandonment of the Washington service ... perhaps all cars<br>
turned back at Drake Wye for a brief period.<br>
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I'm also not clear when Simmons loop opened. I know Charleroi<br>
service ended in June 1953 and I have a color slide of a Library car<br>
in the Simmons loop on August 29, 1953. Therefore, if there was a<br>
period when all cars turned at West Library, it was not for longer<br>
than two months.<br>
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Write me personally and tell me about that first semester.....<br>
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On Dec 14, 2006, at 4:48 PM, DF Cramer wrote:<br>
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> Does it also not make sense that the company could build a loop and<br>
> keep<br>
> other service going at the same time?When it was time to cutback<br>
> service,<br>
> the loop was already in place and ready to be utilized.<br>
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> Yes, I am home and the first semester of school is complete.<br>
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> Dennis F. Cramer<br>
> Teacher-Trombonist-Historian-Conductor<br>
> <a href="http://www.geocities.com/df_cramer" target="_blank">http://www.geocities.com/df_cramer</a><br>
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</div></div></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Daria</div>
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