Did the Pennsy use helpers on the north end of the Chautauqua Branch? It appears that the summit of the line was in Summerdale, NY at about 1600 ft above sea level. Were helpers used on either side of this grade?
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Did the Pennsy use helpers on the north end of the Chautauqua Branch? It appears that the summit of the line was in Summerdale, NY at about 1600 ft above sea level. Were helpers used on either side of this grade?
Were there any lines that the DL109s and/or the PAs were restricted from due to their long wheelbases?
Sorry, LATE reply, but I just found it and have to add something. The west end crossover between this branch and the old P & E was probably just east of PA Rt 89, as theres still a signal bridge there, (minus signals), over the still existant ex-P&E. Went to Spartansburg last Saturday, drove...
Last summer I took a OBB Railjet between Salzburg and Zurich, Switzerland. I believe it was on the part of the trip between Salzburg and Innsbruck where we appeared to go underground and then picked up a lot of speed. Is this a stretch of track that is in an underground trench that is dedicated to h...
What type of diesels hauled the Milwaukee passenger trains through the gap between the electrified divisions? For that matter, what type of freight diesels worked the gap in the 50's?
I'm referring to the switchbacks near Galeton, not the one at Keating Summit. I'm assuming the switchbacks over the mountain were built just to get the line through as quickly as possible, but were there originally plans to replace them with a series of loops and maybe even a tunnel near the summit?...
That would great if they kept it in place, and I hope some tourist trade could pan out. I'd love to be able to ride between Kane and Mt. Jewett again.
I was traveling along Route 6 last night, and I was pleasantly suprised to see that the old Knox and Kane tracks were still in place. Is this scheduled for scrapping this summer? Whenever they pull up the tracks, I'll miss them. The old P&W looked like one long industrial spur ever since I can r...
Some nice shots on a local shipping news blog from December:
http://erieshipnews.blogspot.com/2010/1 ... loads.html
Check out this interesting set of horseshoe curves, including one that nearly loops back on top of itself, on the Pittburg, Shawmut and Northern up by Mt. Jewett, PA. http://historical.mytopo.com/getImage.asp?fname=mtjw40ne.jpg&state=PA (It’s in the northeast corner of the map, go all the way to...
Is Gold Camp Road, (i.e the old CS&CCD Ry row) still open all the way between Colorado City and Cripple Creek? While reading about the "haunted tunnels" on some other websites I thought I read that there was a cave-in in one of the tunnels which severed the route.
Bingo! That's the road I was thinking about, thanks for the info. Layton Road leading out of Perryopolis. Old Washington Run Railroad ROW. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Run_Railroad Also, if you plug "Perryopolis to Layton Road" into a search engine, you can get quite a few diffe...
I could have sworn I found a web page once that showed a road, not a rail-trail but an actual road, built on an abandoned railroad right of way in southwestern PA. What was unique about it was it passed through a tunnel and over a river on a railroad through truss bridge. I can’t remember if it was ...
Builders Plate seen on the wall over a bar. I wrote down the following info:
"ALCO-GE 79477 Oct 1951"
Anybody out there know what unit was assigned that builder number?
This line appears to have started right on the state line with a connection to the Pittsburgh, Shawmut and Northern in Ceres, NY. It then went down into PA in McKean and Potter Counties before coming back up into New York and connecting with the Erie just outside of Canisteo. Now, when I first saw i...