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Re: Reasonable Long Term Hopes

 by Pacobell73 ¦  Thu Feb 06, 2014 1:47 pm ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: Reasonable Long Term Hopes ¦  Replies: 192 ¦  Views: 26499

CComMack, BPP1999 - You are generally correct. Our estimate was based on distance, and a recognition that most recent nearby projects — like Wawa — were skewed upward by either garages, new yards, or major retaining wall work. Other items — like stations — were points of disagreement, as most of us...

Re: Conrail salvage of the Lackawanna Cutoff

 by Pacobell73 ¦  Wed Jan 29, 2014 5:52 pm ¦  Forum: Conrail - 1976 to the Present ¦  Topic: Conrail salvage of the Lackawanna Cutoff ¦  Replies: 23 ¦  Views: 30425

All very good photos. Sad to be sure, but it is good that the actual dismantling process is accounted for. Nice work...

Re: Reasonable Long Term Hopes

 by Pacobell73 ¦  Wed Jan 29, 2014 5:43 pm ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: Reasonable Long Term Hopes ¦  Replies: 192 ¦  Views: 26499

Paco, Your account about the hypocrisy of politicians and the biases in the system were definitely eye opening. I find it interesting. Thank you kindly. The saying "you can't make this stuff up" lends itself to an entire book on this line. Perhaps maybe instead of fighting for the reactiv...

Reading

 by Pacobell73 ¦  Wed Jan 29, 2014 4:41 pm ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: Reasonable Long Term Hopes ¦  Replies: 192 ¦  Views: 26499

I have reviewed and re-reviewed PA-TEC's website, and I don't agree with everything I see there. That website takes issue with the projection of 3k new daily users on a restored Reading line. It then says "How could this be when ridership was only 690 when the line was cut?" OK, maybe so,...

Re: Reasonable Long Term Hopes

 by Pacobell73 ¦  Wed Jan 29, 2014 12:12 pm ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: Reasonable Long Term Hopes ¦  Replies: 192 ¦  Views: 26499

My personal experience with a few outspoken members of PA-TEC has not been particularly positive, but I agree that the above timeline leads to a more complete view of their efforts. I'll continue to hope their efforts pay off, but I suspect they may be more to the story than is mentioned above. We ...

Newtown Line Campaign

 by Pacobell73 ¦  Tue Jan 28, 2014 12:40 pm ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: Reasonable Long Term Hopes ¦  Replies: 192 ¦  Views: 26499

FYI - for those interested in the Newtown Campaign, here are a few articles from that era, most notably, an endorsement from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Richard Dixon and Paul Osciak: http://newtownline.pa-tec.org/documents/BLET_Endorsement.pdf A Bucks-Montco debate Newtown Station: Reop...

Re: Reasonable Long Term Hopes

 by Pacobell73 ¦  Tue Jan 28, 2014 10:58 am ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: Reasonable Long Term Hopes ¦  Replies: 192 ¦  Views: 26499

Great post, PacoBell. Thanks for the information, even if it is disturbing and tragic. Thank you kindly. If Newtown is so despised by some well-connected cronies, why not take the advice mentioned in your post and focus on another line? When it became clear that money was there and just being spent...

Re: Reasonable Long Term Hopes

 by Pacobell73 ¦  Tue Jan 28, 2014 10:01 am ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: Reasonable Long Term Hopes ¦  Replies: 192 ¦  Views: 26499

Any ideas why certain members of the SEPTA board don't want this line to be re-instituted? We do not know, jslader . We have never seen so much effort used to hold back any discussion. This line inflames passions like no other, and we have never been able to explain that to our satisfaction. It goe...

PA-TEC speaks

 by Pacobell73 ¦  Mon Jan 27, 2014 4:13 pm ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: Reasonable Long Term Hopes ¦  Replies: 192 ¦  Views: 26499

What I heard is that SEPTA and certain board members shooed the other Bucks County politicians away from Newtown. So if the pols are told its a bad project, they're not going to bat for it. That is correct. SEPTA doesn't tell legislators what to do, its the other way around. According to some peopl...

Re: Lackawanna Cutoff Passenger Service Restoration

 by Pacobell73 ¦  Fri Aug 31, 2012 3:06 pm ¦  Forum: New Jersey Transit NJT Rail and Light Rail LRT ¦  Topic: Lackawanna Cutoff Passenger Service Restoration ¦  Replies: 6078 ¦  Views: 1521189

Question: before the Delaware–Lackawanna Railroad took over operations of the Pocono line in 1993, where is the exact point where Conrail severed the line?

Re: SEPTA Bethlehem Trail Set to Open

 by Pacobell73 ¦  Fri Aug 31, 2012 3:04 pm ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: SEPTA Bethlehem Trail Set to Open ¦  Replies: 12 ¦  Views: 3426

We have to remember, too, that a line loses a lot of its value as a railroad once the tracks are gone. Case in point: pver the last few years, several freight operators have been approached to tap into possible markets on the Newtown and Bethlehem Branches. With tracks now gone, they withdrew intere...

Southampton Station Night Photo Shoot - 8.10.12

 by Pacobell73 ¦  Wed Aug 01, 2012 10:26 am ¦  Forum: Museums, Tourist Lines, and Historical Organizations ¦  Topic: Southampton Station Night Photo Shoot - 8.10.12 ¦  Replies: 0 ¦  Views: 5507

To celebrate the restoration of electric service to Southampton Station, the Southampton Railroad Station Society will light up the station for a special evening photo shoot of the building and grounds. The exterior will be lit by special high wattage incandescent lighting for night time photography...

Southampton Station Night Photo Shoot - 8.10.12

 by Pacobell73 ¦  Wed Aug 01, 2012 10:20 am ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: Southampton Station Night Photo Shoot - 8.10.12 ¦  Replies: 6 ¦  Views: 1616

To celebrate the restoration of electric service to Southampton Station, the Southampton Railroad Station Society will light up the station for a special evening photo shoot of the building and grounds. The exterior will be lit by special high wattage incandescent lighting for night time photography...

two-term Obama = Reactivation?

 by Pacobell73 ¦  Sun Jul 08, 2012 9:11 am ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: Newtown line leased to Montco for recreational trail ¦  Replies: 292 ¦  Views: 87760

This trail is not going to happen. All the monto & bucks municipalities & elected officials are waiting for the state funding to fall into line. Unlike in previous efforts, this has been a continuous effort to get re-activation since 2008. If Obama gets re-elected it will get re-activated. ...

John Pawson dies at 73

 by Pacobell73 ¦  Mon Feb 20, 2012 9:41 am ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: RIP John Pawson ¦  Replies: 14 ¦  Views: 5652

We are at an utter and total loss with John's passing. He was the standard by which many of us were compared. I met him several times and he always made simple sense without interjecting emotion. He was 73 and died at home. Unsure of his cause of death. March 26, 1938 - February 2, 2012 John R. Paws...

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