Re: (erielack) Corry, PA interchange?

[Pat_McKnight_@_nps.gov]

At Steamtown we have a folder for the following Erie contract in box 162,
folder 57:

Erie RR--Contract #5387--Erie Railroad Company and Pennsylvania Railroad
Company--Joint crossing protection at West Wayne Avenue, Corry, PA (October
30, 1923, supplemented and cancelled July 14, 1954)

Other files dealing with Corry deal with the passenger station,
construction of a tool house (bludprint included), a crossing at Center
Street, and installation of coin locks at the toilets.

Patrick McKnight
Historian/Archivist
Steamtown NHS
570-340-5193

We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but
to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future
possible.-Alan Bloom


                                                                                                                                         
                      Smtimko_@_aol.com                                                                                                    
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There was an active interchange at Corry between EL and PRR, although the
use was limited to cars to/from Warren, Erie, Union City, etc.  There was
not a
huge interchange business at Corry.  I would suspect a half-dozen  cars per

week.

Most traffic to/from EL and to/from Erie, Pa went via B&LE at Shenango  to
Bucyrus-Erie at Erie.

The EL did operate detour trains via PRR from Corry to Union City (about 12

miles) when derailments happened between those points.  I recall one in the

mid-60's when #5 operated via EL-Corry-PRR-Union City-EL.  When returning
to
EL at Union City the train was reversed due to the interchange being a
loop-track design at Union City.  Freight trains usually went to Erie and
returned
via the B&LE to Shenango due to the reversing direction issue via  Union
CIty.
That interchange track at Union City is still in place between  the former
EL
and former PRR but it is not connected on the former EL (WNYP)  side, not
certain about the former PRR (A&E RR) side.

The crossing at Corry between WNYP (EL) and A&E RR (PRR) is an  automatic
interlocking.  The first train to activate the approach circuit  obtains
the
signal to proceed, providing other conditions allow it.

SMT


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