[PRCo] Re: More Dates

[Edward H. Lybarger]

I find that I missed some of the cost of the Library Loop...what I mentioned
was just for trackwork.  Add another $2899.59 for overhead.

Sorry,
Ed

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[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of Mark
McGuire
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 7:37 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: More Dates



   DITTO!!!!
I need to purchase another filing cabinet for all the info I've
printed out. Right now I have a mess on my hands. Not unlike
one of Ed's desks at PTM before I arrived. ;>)

                       Mark

-- "James B. Holland" <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com> wrote:
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
>