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A similar scheme, running from Mt. Airy down Germantown and thence 19th to Locust, would do the same (as well as take pressure off of the massively overcrowded 23 bus). North and south are the cardinal directions heavier service needs to go. People wanting to travel from Northwest Philadelphia to C...

I have seen R2 Baldwin and R5 Harrisburg -- How rare are these (I think I have the Baldwin one in my small collection, not sure about Harrisburg).

Picture of former Temple University station (then Columbia Avenue Station) from 1909 can be found at http://www.phillyhistory.org/PhotoArchi ... aId=198369.

Regarding passenger service on the Trenton Cut-off, I direct you to the New York Times item published July 28, 1892 ( http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F20B16FF395C17738DDDA10A94DF405B8285F0D3 ): THE TRENTON CUT-OFF ROAD Trenton, N.J., July 27. -- It is given out in railroad circles ...

scotty269 wrote:I always thought, in the grand futuristic dreamland, it would function as a dinky route. Shuttles from Bustleton/Grant Ave to Holmesburg Junction.

While not a Septa station (or station in this case), how viable would a restoration of passenger service on the Bustleton Branch be? Granted many former station locations have been obliterated and the branch no longer crosses Roosevelt Boulevard, but the population of Northeast Philadelphia is certa...

Shawmont. Its closure made it very difficult for those in the vicinity of the station to use public transport. The logical option of using Miquon won't work as River Road was blocked off per an agreement between the City and Montco/Whitemarsh officials. Down the line at Ivy Ridge, while there is par...

The tracks south of Chelten Avenue to just above Champlost were unused until the City determined whether the Broad Street Subway would extend northward via Broad Street (as decided) or via Belfield Avenue and Ogontz Avenue. Somewhere I've heard that the site of Central High School would have become...

I know that plan went nowhere 40+ years ago. However, the Northeast has changed quite a bit... The Blvd is lined with retail, opening that up to rapid transit could have long term benefits. The traffic on the boulevard is brutal. I have a relative who lived in the Los Angeles area most of her life ...

What had me fascinated was from what I've since read that this was intended to be an elevated line from the old Wister Station (since moved up the branch several hundred feet) to get at least out of the Wingohocking Valley. I haven't found any indication of where intermediate stations between Wister...

[In all seriousness, some years ago a coworker mentioned to me that he would be taking a bus to West Philly after work. I suggested that the Subway-Surface lines would be faster and he said yes, that's what he was riding - "you know, the buses that run in the tunnels next to the subway". ...

[In all seriousness, some years ago a coworker mentioned to me that he would be taking a bus to West Philly after work. I suggested that the Subway-Surface lines would be faster and he said yes, that's what he was riding - "you know, the buses that run in the tunnels next to the subway". T...

I just dug up my copy here in Sydney (perhaps the only copy in the Antipodes) just to confirm what is show on the map on the rear cover. Did anyone else notice that the Newtown Square Branch of the Pennsy is shown as being Septa-owned (at least the abandoned section at the time west of Grassland?

Besides, I'm sure Franklin Gowen would presume the Poughkeepsie bridge was burned by latter day Molly Maguires.

I still have my ancient copy and it too is falling apart -- I still wonder why publishers describe this type of binding as perfect binding.