[PRCo] Re: Why was the Drake Loop Built?

[Fred Schneider]

I'm not sure if you understand the sequence here Dennis.   PRC built  
a wye at Walther stop in March of 1953 and in April they reduced  
service beyond that wye to every hour.   Service was provided as far  
as Walther (Drake Wye) every 30 minutes.     (At the same schedule  
change, Charleroi cars went to half hourly to West Library Loop at  
hourly beyond West Library.)    Then the loop was constructed under  
the viaduct at Drake stop.   Ed might have the exact date that the  
loop opened but I think it might have been shortly after the August  
29, 1953 abandonment of the Washington service ... perhaps all cars  
turned back at Drake Wye for a brief period.

I'm also not clear when Simmons loop opened.   I know Charleroi  
service ended in June 1953 and I have a color slide of a Library car  
in the Simmons loop on August 29, 1953. Therefore, if there was a  
period when all cars turned at West Library, it was not for longer  
than two months.

Write me personally and tell me about that first semester.....

On Dec 14, 2006, at 4:48 PM, DF Cramer wrote:

> Does it also not make sense that the company could build a loop and  
> keep
> other service going at the same time?When it was time to cutback  
> service,
> the loop was already in place and ready to be utilized.
>
> Yes, I am home and the first semester of school is complete.
>
> Dennis F. Cramer
> Teacher-Trombonist-Historian-Conductor
> http://www.geocities.com/df_cramer
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