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IIRC the surviving Brill stock (Bullets and Strafford cars) were OOS by the time the CTAs arrived. They were retired in early '90 and the line was temporarily bustituted until the CTAs were available that Fall. The twin-car CTA El sets arrived in 1986 . That was an interesting (read: very weird) ti...

silverliner266 wrote:I believe it was, a SEPTA employee posted a really cool picture of the locomotive and cars at Warminster.

Fifty (!!!) years ago yesterday - February 1, 1968 - was the first 24 hours of the Penn Central.
"What a long, strange trip it's been."
Hard, indeed, to believe that PRR has now been gone for a full half-century.

Fifty (!!!) years ago yesterday - February 1, 1968 - was the first 24 hours of the Penn Central.
"What a long, strange trip it's been."
Hard, indeed, to believe that NYC has now been gone for a full half-century.

Fifty (!!!) years ago yesterday - February 1, 1968 - was the first 24 hours of the Penn Central.
"What a long, strange trip it's been."
Hard, indeed, to believe that PRR and NYC have now been mere ghosts for a full half-century.

Thanks, JeffK, for doing the legwork and networking with parties who are "in the know". It's very important that this sort of news becomes known more widely. Two more RRD followup items: Based on some comments I've heard from people on the inside, SEPTA has no intention of deploying kiosks...

Hi there, Jim. :-) Thanks for the interesting report of "physics gone bad" at Sellersville. You of all people know we're always interested in any physical & operational changes to the Bethlehem Branch (especially north of Lansdale) and welcome posts about this subject. The forum's bigg...

On April 1 1976, Amtrak took ownership from Penn Central of their ex-PRR Northeast Corridor mainline between Washington DC and New York NY. A new day had dawned, and with it a fascinating new future began. Today is the 40th anniversary of that momentous, but possibly under-reported, change. Please s...

April 1, 1976 was a dark day for employees and enthusiasts alike. On that day, the Reading Company finally ended being an operating railroad. Other classic northeastern railroads became "fallen flags" on that day, but the transformation of the RDG was the loss which saddened me the most ou...

April 1, 1976 was the very first day of Conrail. Love it or hate it, but Conrail definitely made history. Armed with Uncle Sam's gigabucks, CR helped save northeastern railroading from near-total collapse. I find it hard to believe that the adventure which began the day that Penn Central ended had i...

I know that this is an old thread, but here's some additional revelant information: Did PRR make the reading catenary No. :wink: Assembly of the Reading's alternating-current catenary system was a "home-brew" project performed entirely by the RDG's own labor force. The total electrified mi...

I've personally taken photos showing that this process was seriously picking-up momentum as early as mid-July 2009.

GSDenshaw wrote:I stumbled on this photo by accident. It is Reading 108 taking on water. Is this Roeloffs ???

Thank you, Jeff Smith and ExCon90! Your help was very informative indeed.

How punctual has the eastbound Pennsylvanian's performance been recently?

In a few days I'm meeting family detraining at PHL who transferred to #42 from #30 in PGH. I'm cautiously optimistic that west of HBG, NS is a help and not a hindrance. Thanks in advance for any help.