Dwarf PLs...

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Pictures Gary? Cal Reynolds.
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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

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