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Discussion relating to the PRR, up to 1968. Visit the PRR Technical & Historical Society for more information.

 #15138  by catfoodflambe
 
Still very much intact and in use by Norfork Southern. PRR sold this line to the N&W in 1964 to allow the latter to tie the "traditional N&W to the NKP/Wabash system it had aquired last year. It always has heavy traffice, especially coal moving from the mountains to Lake Erie docks.

With the Conrail merger, this became one of the busier NS lines in the country. NS recently double-tracked a sizable chunk of line north of Columbus to accommodate merger traffic, but any plans to add more track has probably been nixed by the general traffic reduction and the decline of "boat coal" traffic as Powder River coal gradually takes over lake-accessible power plants.

 #15673  by MR77100
 
When was the line double-tracked? I was in Attica Jct. last summer, and was surprised to see an additional track!