Dormont *Loop!!!!!!!*

[Edward H. Lybarger]

I find in the PRCo correspondence files evidence that the wye was installed
in 1917, and that they were seriously considering the loop idea even then.
Naturally, an adjacent property owner was complaining about fill material
being dumped on his land, even during wye construction!

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[mailto:owner-pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org]On Behalf Of Jim Holland
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 4:32 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: Dormont *Loop!!!!!!!*


Greetings!

Edward H. Lybarger wrote:
>
> We have a 1931 drawing of the Dormont Loop, for example, and
> correspondence discussing the filling of the McLaughlin Run valley to
> eliminate the trestle at Drake.

	This begs the question - when was the Dormont wye built?  And . . . was
the loop proposed before the wye was built?  Was the location of the
proposed loop in the same vicinity as the wye?  Why was a *wye* chosen
instead of a loop?

James B. Holland
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