Charleroi Car Barn -- & Tylerdale on Washington

[Edward H. Lybarger]

The loop track went off the barn ladder, along the east side of the
building, around the south end of the building and onto the main line in the
street.  It may have been filled with spare cars and not used as a loop in
later years?

I think your assumptions about Tylerdale are correct.  All the thru trips
left from the terminal in town rather than the barn.

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Subject: Re: Charleroi Car Barn -- & Tylerdale on Washington


Greetings!

Edward H. Lybarger wrote:
>
> Southbound cars could easily turned on a loop outside the building.
> Northbound cars could, at least theoretically, be backed through this
> process, but it would have required work.

	Where was the loop located?  Have looked hard at the few pictures I
have and can't find evidence of a loop.  I presume the south end of the
building.

	For the Washington line there is no evidence of cars terminating at
Tylerdale on a southbound run and no evidence of beginning the
northbound trip from there (according to the 1950 schedule).  So I
assume the cars were backed thru the crossover and then backed over the
loop around the Car House.  The next morning the car would be backed
onto the siding so they could head south into Washington to begin their
trip.

James B. Holland
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