[PRCo] Re: Ardmore Wye???????

Jim Holland pghpcc at pacbell.net
Mon Jun 11 22:46:36 EDT 2001


> Jim Holland wrote:

>         The March--04--1945  ERA  PRCo  map shows a wye at the end of the
> Ardmore line on the old line that ran through to McKeesport!!

>         The 1949 ERA map states that they wye was out, loop new in May--1949!!

>         The wye was on Station street.  The car would back off Station into the
> leg of the wye and then turn to head back inbound!!

	And the PRMA map shows a better alignment of this section and would
make it  *seem*  that the wye was in the same location as where the turn
to the loop.  IF  this was the case, then the cars backed down a rather
steep grade!!

--
James B. Holland




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