[PRCo] Re: Donora Wye

[Jerry MATT Matsick]

 Phil - I grew up in Donora from 1941-1959, the old boarded up freight station was old and boarded up
even back then and I don't  believe there is a future for it unless it is just torn down, and the boro of Donora
has been doing that with alot of the old empty building in the town now. Â I often wonder what "Trolley" type
thingy might have been left in the building. Â however contrary to what everyone states sometime in the early
1950s, I saw a PRCo PCC come into Donora and make use of the Wye!!!!! however everyone thinks I
am nuts, but I know what I saw and I saw a PCC! Â  The overhead wire was there until they closed the line
down, so you never know!!!
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From: Jerry "Matt" Matsick "PHD"

AGING: Eventually you will reach a point when you 
stop lying about your age and start Bragging 
about it. 
  -------------- Original message from Phillip Clark Campbell <pcc_sr at yahoo.com>: --------------


> Mr.Rockwell;
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> 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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> ----- Original Message ----
> > From: ROBERT R ROCKWELL 
> > To: pittsburgh-railways 
> > Sent: Friday, January 2, 2009 8:30:10 AM
> > Subject: [PRCo] Donora Wye
> > 
> > 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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