Dormont *Loop!!!!!!!*

[Jim Holland]

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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