[PRCo] Still more reading from the Pittsburgh Press

[D Brashear]

On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Bob Rathke <bobrathke at comcast.net> wrote:

> In the late 1980's and 90's there were two Chicago trains: the Capitol
> Limited via the old PR line along the Ohio River, and the Broadway Limited
> via the old B&O line (Etna-New Castle-Youngstown). The train names and
> routes were flipped from the pre-Amtrak routes of the old PRR and B&O
> flagship train.
>
> Also, when the Broadway Limited route was started on the B&O, a crossover
> track was built under or near the Bloomfield Bridge to allow the train to
> back into the PRR station, then continue eastbound on the PRR to N.Y. or
> westbound  on the B&O to Youngstown. That crossover is no longer
> needed since the Capitol Limited is the only Chicago train that now stops
> in Pittsburgh.
>
>
The Bloom-Field connector is still used daily so the Capitol can come in
via the Fort Wayne and continue via the B&O to DC.

One of the members of the PRRT&HS recounts finding this grade and having
track reinstalled so this could be done.



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