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Re: (erielack) Corry, PA interchange?

On Mon., 16 January 2006 SMT wrote:

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.

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An engine runby must have occurred at Union City, but
would the train have continued reversed all the way to
Chicago?  Could it have been turned on a wye somewhere
west of Union City?  Would coach seats have been
turned if the train could not be turned?

I recall seeing a westbound passenger train detoured
through Cattaraugus in 1943 or 1944.  From what I know
about the track plan at Dayton, I believe it would
have had to run reversed once it continued westward on
the B&SW division.  I've always wondered about that.

Bob Frost   ELHS #980



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