Dwarf PLs...

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Two PRR style dwarf signals guarded the ex-PRR Little Miami mainline tracks
coming eastward to the old PRR/ N&W diamonds at Clare Yard in Cincinnati.
The Little Miami ran from downtown Cincinnati to Xenia, ohio and then
Columbus, Ohio

These were installed at the end of PC operation on the old Little Miami
tracks after the N&W bought about 1 1/4 miles of the ex-PRR mainline and the
three transfer tracks for Clare Yard.  These tracks became storage and
shifting tracks for the N&W operations out of Clare Yard.  The N&W would
build trains heading for Ft. Wayne on the newly purchased New Castle
District.  These controlled movements on to the two old mainline tracks for
the now stub-ended tracks and were controlled by the Peavine and then the
New Castle Dispatcher. 

When the diamond and connection track was removed in 1993 and the two
mainlines running along side Clare were changed to one mainline and one
passing siding, one of the old PRR tracks was disconnected and connected to
the "Main TWO east of the old crossing.  One dwarf signal was unnecessary,
so it was removed.

Main ONE, the ex-PRR eastbound main, still called Main One, has a modern
two-light dwarf at the west end of this siding where it connects to Main two
for movement westward on to the New Castle District (ex- PRR Cincinnati &
Richmond line).  

Gary Rolih
Cincinnati