[PRCo] Re: Donora Wye

[Phillip Clark Campbell]

Mr.Rockwell;


Thank you for these photos.  In relation to the first photo
I assume the wye of the second is to the right of the
boarded up freight building.  It appears that apartments
were still in use when the photo was taken;  do you know
what is planned for the building?  How large is it?  What 'did'
occupy the first floor?

It is 'somewhat' unusual to see a pure wye formation which
this is;  the point and mate are curved in both directions
aren't they.  In this case both legs come from the same
tangent at presumably the same radius thus the pure wye.
The Dormont wye track components were made up
of 2-left and one-right point and mate pairs weren't they.
Leaving the outbound main is a left; backing from the wye
is a left; backing thru the point onto the inbound main is
a right.  Since each leg of the wye comes from a 
different tangent and with both radii being equal or
nearly the same, the track entering the wye leg
has a stretch of tangent thru the point nearly equal to
the track centers doesn't it.

There were a couple wyes in the South Hills yards in
very tight locations weren't there.  These could possibly
be pure wye formations as well.  Otherwise, one would
be hard pressed to find wye point-mates elsewhere on PRC.
If anyone knows of any please list them;  I find this topic
quite interesting.

You lived in Charleroi didn't you;  always open to memories
of PRC here.  Please write when you have the time.


Phil






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> From: ROBERT R ROCKWELL <w3syt1 at msn.com>
> To: pittsburgh-railways <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 2, 2009 8:30:10 AM
> Subject: [PRCo] Donora Wye
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> Rarely do you see this with no cars parked on it. Brick building on the side 
> was Pgh Rwys freight station/ticket office. It is boarded up now.
> 
> Robert Rockwell
> w3syt1 at msn.com 
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