[PRCo] Re: PRCo's Dormont Wye

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!

> HRBran99 at aol.com wrote:::::::

> Only three drawings came up the first time I went to that page. Now, I tried
> again and got all four. This means it was added in 1965?

	Yes - the siding outbound on the 42-line just south of Biltmore was added 
*about*  1965.   It was not there when I left to join Uncle Sam's Canoe
Club in 1963!!!!!
	My sister Sue, couple years younger than me, wrote to describe it, bless
her heart!!   She is not a technical person but it must have greatly
impressed her and, Of Course, she knows I am a railfan!
	Tom qualified the dating as approximate.

	Interesting to note on the map that Ray Lattner forwarded from the Pitt
Library shows that Dormont Junction was just an extended passing siding in
1934.   It is single track across Biltmore if you look closely with the
switch just south of Biltmore in the same vicinity as the latter-day
siding!!!   Tom Phillips indicates that the 42-line was completely double
track in 1941 as he used it to commute to work.
	Also, Tom Phillips notes that the connection to the 38-line is to the
outbound 38-track only which  *suggests*  that there is a facing point
crossover out of the picture.   Otherwise, an inbound 38-car has no access
to the 42-line.   The Xover could be traditional trailing point as when the
lines were built, double end equipment was quite common.

	I don't remember which came first   ---   the 42- or 38-line   ---   but
the 42-line was very "High Class" to use a term.   The center reservation
prw along Broadway in Dormont extended thru Beechview as well.   We had a
discussion about this quite some time back - old relief maps indicate
this.   *Guess*  Broadway in Beechview was paved about the same time the
rest of the 42-line was double-tracked.
	.......AND  the Charleroi Interurban used the 42-line to get to and from
Pgh. before the Overbrook line was opened up.

	Ed has indicated that part of the 38-line thru Dormont was also single
track with passing sidings at one time.   Have a picture from the Dormont
Historical Society which shows a contactor in the overhead on the 38-line 
*suggesting*  the possibility of nachod signals (could be a headway
recorder as well.)

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