[PRCo] Re: 1974 Detours

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!

> macmarka at netzero.net wrote:

> It shows the Drake car on the 38A loop (the side
> closest to Castle Shannon Blvd.)    Looking at the
> PERC map of 1959, there is no connection to the
> interurban line outbound once turning onto the loop.

	There is a connection  --  back around the 37-Loop.

> Why not just go straight at the switch instead
> of turning onto the loop?

	Fred posed a  *What--If*  situation where Overbrook was shut
down for some reason.    This means that  ALL  equipment would
be using the Dinky Track on 38A  Inbound and Outbound.    So
Inbound Interurbans could take the crossover southwest of the
Admin Bldg and proceed to the wye using the same track as the
38A when it looped.
	Although there  *was*  a siding on this track, it hadn't been
used in many decades and may not even have been operable in
1974.    So to prevent cornfield meets, all cars would head
into the 38A loop the normal way; interurban cars would back
around the 37-line loop to head OB to their destinations.   
Very Simple.

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