by 2nd trick op
I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to here: The PRR did have a tower named WYE, but it was located on the Middle Division, and not on the main line, but In Hollidaysburg. It served the "Muleshoe" freight bypass around Altoona, and several branches to the south extending as far as Cumberland, Md.
Pennsy's KASE Tower in Sunbury did include a unique wye of sorts .... the two legs crossed almost immediately at a diamond adjacent to the tower, then rejoined at a point on the Wilkes-Barre Branch designated BANK about a mile to the north. The PRR operated daily freights from Wilkes-Barre to both Enola (Harrisburg) and Conway (Pittsburgh), the latter via Williamsport, until the Wilkes-Barre Branch was devatated by flooding in 1972, so the plant saw regular use until that time.
REDPEN at Catawissa was before my time; topographic maps of the area do show a PRR-RDG connection along the south bank of Catawissa Creek, but employee timetables of the day lead me to believe that REDPEN was located about a mile up the valley, where the Reading and the PRR's branch to Rock Glen and Hazleton would have crossed.
Hopefully, someone can add more to this.
Pennsy's KASE Tower in Sunbury did include a unique wye of sorts .... the two legs crossed almost immediately at a diamond adjacent to the tower, then rejoined at a point on the Wilkes-Barre Branch designated BANK about a mile to the north. The PRR operated daily freights from Wilkes-Barre to both Enola (Harrisburg) and Conway (Pittsburgh), the latter via Williamsport, until the Wilkes-Barre Branch was devatated by flooding in 1972, so the plant saw regular use until that time.
REDPEN at Catawissa was before my time; topographic maps of the area do show a PRR-RDG connection along the south bank of Catawissa Creek, but employee timetables of the day lead me to believe that REDPEN was located about a mile up the valley, where the Reading and the PRR's branch to Rock Glen and Hazleton would have crossed.
Hopefully, someone can add more to this.
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