[PRR-talk] A Philadelphia branch question

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Norm,
          I think I can  reference the track. After passing ZOO and heading 
East(North) towards North  Philadelphia the PRR mainline passes over the 
Schuylkill River. As you go North  there will be a track that comes in on the right. 
This is the begining of the 0  track at the crossover switch. Where the O 
track ended  atthe crossover  connecting to No.1 track,the tale of the O track 
became the Engleside Br. This  went down past a horse stable and served two Acme 
buildings after splitting  at a switch and going through the cobble stone 
street. The other Acme building  was their main freezer warehouse. This Engleside 
br at one time use to connect  to the READING track just west of where the 
B&O connected to the READING at  PARK Jct.
    In 1989 Conrail bought and demolished the Acme freezer  building and 
removed the Engleside Br and made a new connection to the CR  Trenton Line(ex RDG 
RR) and connected this to the O track. Also at this time the  O track, which 
was Conrails,was completely cutoff from Amtrak,except at  Frankford Jct. This 
new connection and the Amtrak seperation made the time  consuming runaround of 
trains on the highline headed to Camden unnecessary  and saved considerable 
amount of time and waiting for Amtrak to handle its  Camden bound trains. This 
new connection was then reffered to as the Engleside  Connection and it was 
used I think as the O track for a bit but later may have  been just called the 
Single track. The old PARK Jct Intl was removed and moved  up to where this new 
track made the connection coming down a steep grade west  bound into the new 
PARK Intl.
     The Belmont Br came off right after you passed ZOO  headed North and 
went off to the left and connects to the former CR Trenton  Line(ex RDG) that 
comes up from PARK Intl .
  Hope this answers your question.
 
Pat McKinney



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