[PRCo] Re: PRCo Interurbans

[Fred Schneider]

Derrick's answer isn't at all a bad one.  Pittsburgh had a lot of wyes but they
could always be deadly situations because PRC never put back up controllers in
their cars.  It didn't seem to bother them up until mid century.  They backed out
of Washington terminal every 30 minutes.  Several times a day they backed into our
out of Canonsburg wye.  Until about 1950 they backed into a wye next to Wilmerding
PRR station ... in the rush hours perhaps every 5 minutes (into swarms of men
coming off shift from Westinghouse Air Brake).  In those days, the person who got
hit was wrong for not opening his eyes!

Today I can only imagine what the company legal department would have to say if you
just uttered the word wye.

Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 Macmarka at cs.com wrote:
>
> >  Thanks for the response Fred. I was thinking though that couldn't PRCo think
> > of a better place to install the loop? Figure they had to place it under an
> > existing trestle. Also, the terrain was not the most ideal(the "s" curve and
> > the grade leading to the loop). Just wondering if PRCo had other sites in
> > mind before they picked Drake.  Why did they not just use the wye?
>
> Backpoling sucks.
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