[PRCo] Re: WP

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> I was speaking of the original alignment of the Lincoln Highway (the new
> one's just "Route 30").  I still drive it from time to time...it's a whole
> lot easier than the stop lights out on the new road.  But it (the old one)
> was truncated at PA 981 to accommodate the construction of the
> airport...there was also a PRR branch (Unity) that was eliminated when it
> was built.  It served the coke plants at Baggaley, Shirey, Hostetter,
> Whitney, Jamison 20 and Ellen 2.

The Unity Branch was truncated later, for airport expansion. Was the 
Lincoln Highway also cut later than the airport opened?