[PRCo] Re: More Dates

[James B. Holland]

Hi Ed!


V-e-r-y    N-i-c-e    I-n-f-o    ----

Thank You for taking the time to look it up.


Jim__Holland


Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

>I was able to get 20 minutes in the library this morning:
>
>Drake Wye was first used Monday AM, April 20, 1953.
>
>Edgebrook & McKinley Sidings were placed in operation Saturday AM, February
>27, 1954.
>
>Santa Barbara Siding was placed in operation Saturday PM, April 10, 1954.
>
>(West) Library Loop was constructed between August 5 and August 29, 1935, in
>time for that year's Allegheny County Fair.  Cost was $5038.66; Allegheny
>County paid $3618 of that, though it took PRCo almost a year to collect the
>money (does this surprise anyone?).  A wye was also considered...it would
>have cost a little less but the loop offered more operational flexibility.
>[Those construction dates are the accounting dates listed in PRCo
>records...and include on each end the opening and closing of the account.
>The actual construction was probably complete before August 29.]
>
>Ed
>