carajul wrote:Would anyone care to guess what the service/train frequency was toward the end for the Frack grade track? I know St Nick was still open and operating in 1971, but the arial shots from that year show it down to 1 track and not in the best of shape. The 5 tracks thru Frack were gone too.Here is the Conrail Final System plan recommendations from 1975. See page 451, line number 921 (St. Clair through Frackville to Bear Run Junction). (Apparently by 1975 the Reading controlled the ex PRR line heading northeast (and downhill) from Frackville to Bear Run junction). Anyway, the report says the grade we have been mostly talking about, St. Clair up to Frackville, was out of service already. I guess any local traffic for Frackville went up the other way, from Bear Run Jct. The whole piece was not recommended for inclusion in Conrail. Not sure if that section ever came back.
Also why did the PRR abandon their line in 1968? Was traffic down that much?
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Jim S