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Re: Passenger service on West Side Freight Line (30th St Bra

 by kinlock ¦  Sun Feb 09, 2014 4:04 pm ¦  Forum: New York Central ¦  Topic: Passenger service on West Side Freight Line to 30th Street Station ¦  Replies: 8 ¦  Views: 4767

If you look at link below, you will see any passenger service only down to 30th Street

http://www.kinglyheirs.com/NewYorkState ... passengers" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Re: NYC T Motor Questions

 by kinlock ¦  Fri Dec 06, 2013 10:22 am ¦  Forum: New York Central ¦  Topic: NYC T Motor Questions ¦  Replies: 3 ¦  Views: 2016

There is a link from this page that has some pictures which will help modelers
http://penneyvanderbilt.wordpress.com/2 ... enmont-ny/

Re: NYC New York Central High Line (West Side Improvement)

 by kinlock ¦  Mon Jun 17, 2013 7:52 am ¦  Forum: New York Central ¦  Topic: NYC New York Central High Line (West Side Improvement) ¦  Replies: 45 ¦  Views: 20053

See a great story and some great pictures of the West Side Freight Line 30th Street Station and West Side Freight Line Passengers

http://www.kinglyheirs.com/NewYorkState ... passengers

There is the same kind of situation in Chicago Land: The South Shore Line a.k.a. Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad and owned by the NICTD (Northern Indiana Commuter Transit District) and chartered by the state of Indiana runs into downtown Chicago where trackage is owned by METRA, short...

Why not think BIG for a change??? Governments of NY, NJ and Connecticut should get together and amend charter of MTA to include Connecticut from NYC to New London and New Haven to Springfield (Massachusetts?). Recent Fairfield/Bridgeport accident shows that strength can be important: MTA can call on...

Re: Question on Grand Central Terminal

 by kinlock ¦  Sun Feb 03, 2013 10:47 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Amtrak Grand Central Terminal Operations ¦  Replies: 274 ¦  Views: 79519

In simplicity, former NY Central trains went to Grand Central and former Pennsylvania RR trains went to Penn Station.

Re: Railway Express on the NYC

 by kinlock ¦  Thu Dec 06, 2012 8:20 am ¦  Forum: New York Central ¦  Topic: Railway Express on the NYC ¦  Replies: 11 ¦  Views: 3804

Yup. The Central had the NY Herald-Tribune (and NY Times too) in Utica by 8am. Even when it snowed!

...Ken

Re: Adirondack Division Customers

 by kinlock ¦  Thu Oct 18, 2012 1:14 pm ¦  Forum: New York Central ¦  Topic: Adirondack Division Customers ¦  Replies: 15 ¦  Views: 6570

So when the railroad closed, so did these businesses? Nope: just added more trucks on roads unfit to handle them

Re: D&H and the West Shore

 by kinlock ¦  Sun Aug 26, 2012 1:12 pm ¦  Forum: Delaware & Hudson ¦  Topic: D&H and the West Shore ¦  Replies: 11 ¦  Views: 18973

As the O&W mainline wound its way through out of the way places towards Lake Ontario, it spun off a branch from near Hamilton to Utica. As this branch went through Clinton, another branch went to Rome. The Utica, Clinton & Binghamton Railroad was owned by the Delaware & Hudson, leased to...

Re: When did the West Shore get merged into the NYC?

 by kinlock ¦  Sun Jul 29, 2012 11:54 pm ¦  Forum: New York Central ¦  Topic: When did the West Shore get merged into the NYC? ¦  Replies: 4 ¦  Views: 2376

Only NY Central Annual Report I have is 1950. West Shore shows up as an investment of $10,000,000 in stock at par value (ledger value of $1,000) and Improvements on Leased or Controlled Properties of $27,703,960. No other mention. Note that the "New York Central System" shown in the Annual...

Re: ex-Metro-North M-2 MU cars headed to scrap

 by kinlock ¦  Tue May 29, 2012 2:07 pm ¦  Forum: MTA Metro-North Railroad and CtRail Passenger Rail (SLE, Hartford, Extensions) ¦  Topic: Official M2 / M4 / M6 Retirement Thread ¦  Replies: 747 ¦  Views: 210985

General Electric in Erie, PA?

Re: West Shore between Rotterdam Jct. and Utica

 by kinlock ¦  Sun Apr 01, 2012 1:39 pm ¦  Forum: New York Central ¦  Topic: West Shore between Rotterdam Jct. and Utica ¦  Replies: 37 ¦  Views: 12755

Gee that sounds logical. Guess all the brainpower departed after "M Day".

Re: Penn Station Access

 by kinlock ¦  Mon Jan 02, 2012 2:21 pm ¦  Forum: MTA Metro-North Railroad and CtRail Passenger Rail (SLE, Hartford, Extensions) ¦  Topic: Metro-North New Haven Line Penn Station Access ¦  Replies: 1905 ¦  Views: 468065

WOW! That is "thinking out of the box". A 7 Train will connect everywhere.

...Ken

Re: Proposed Danbury-Pittsfield service?

 by kinlock ¦  Fri Dec 30, 2011 4:12 pm ¦  Forum: New England Railfan ¦  Topic: Housatonic Railroad Thread (Maybrook, Berkshire, Pittsfield) ¦  Replies: 857 ¦  Views: 191306

Next thing we know, somebody will say Stamford is overloaded.

...Ken

Re: Fact Checking- D&O Era CNYK- Richfield Branch

 by kinlock ¦  Thu Dec 15, 2011 3:45 pm ¦  Forum: New York State Railfan ¦  Topic: D&O-era Central New York (CNYK) Richfield Branch ¦  Replies: 34 ¦  Views: 7851

Since this seems to be link sharing about the Richfield Branch

http://sh1.webring.com/people/bk/king50 ... wYork.html

...Ken

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