[PRCo] Re: Mifflin --- Muldowney Loop!!!!!!!

Jim Holland pghpcc at pacbell.net
Mon Jun 11 04:16:58 EDT 2001


> Jim Holland wrote:

>         The 1945 ERA map shows quite an interesting configuration in this
> area.  Apparently the 65 line is connected to the 56-line but the loop
> at this point turns right, ducks under the 2-track 56-line, and then
> loops around to join the inbound 56-line.  A car negotiating this loop
> continually makes a right turn for 360-degrees!!

	Just outbound of Buttermilk Hollow, as an outbound car is climbing
upgrade, there was a short 1-2--car--length trestle which might have
been ideal for such a turning maneuver.  As mentioned elsewhere, the
1945 map shows what existed, but not necessarily in the exact location
of existence!

-- 
James B. Holland




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