[PRCo] Re: WP

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 I don't know the sequence in which the airport facilities were built, but I'm reasonably sure the highway had to go to make way for today's main runway, since it went right across the field.


---- Derrick J Brashear <shadow at dementia.org> wrote: 
> 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?
>