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I wonder how much this will cost SEPTA? New signage along the tracks, "NO Dog Retrieval Permitted on RR Tracks" New Invisible Fencing along the platforms New SEPTA/ASPCA sponsored brochures, "Traveling With Your Pet on SEPTA" Pet carrier racks on all SEPTA trains The inevitable l...

That huge square building to the east of the yard is still a customer with a string of boxcars on its siding. I don't know what they make there. If you are talking about the former Machine & Erecting Shop Building, now Chamberlain Manufacturing; they are a DOD contractor who makes ordinance amo...

Pedestrian or motion activated crossing gates on Meadows Road & Water Street?? They have to be kidding right? Check out the traffic on those roads in the am & pm; the back-ups will be a hoot considering you already have a screwed up traffic light with no left turning arrow at Water & Mai...

Maybe the answer is to allow and/or encourage SEPTA to haul short distance freight and run mail to 30th Street, a scenario as likely as service to West Chester I'm afraid. USPS no longer processes mail at 30th Street. Maybe the Route 36 trolley can pull trailers of mail to Eastwick. Freight handlin...

Back then, these services were privately operated, because transporting people was a profitable enterprise. Well, not quite. Aside from a period of ZERO competition and two World Wars, the railroad's bottom line profits were buoyed by freight hauling, not people hauling. Without those situations an...

Trails? I 've got a homework assignment for you. 1--get a copy of the SEPTA budget, and see what percentage of operating expenses are recovered at the farebox. 2--get budgets or other statistics from the small city and rural transit agencies of Pennsylvania, and see what percentage of their operati...

I agree in principal, but what about the rest of the state and the highway funding?? Gene London? Really? I have a feeling IF tolling the Philadelphia Area Interstates was a permissible and contemplated option, there would be plenty of $$$ left over after SEPTA for other projects. Check the statist...

Phila has a much greater impact to the rest of the state than R to T thinks. Pharma, education, cable/tv entertrainmen (Comcast/NBC yuck), obvious historical impact (to the state and country). Yea murder, crime, insurance fraud, massive welfare rolls, drug addiction and gangs are among a few IMPACT...

Tax EVERYONE who lives in the State for the highway repairs. EVERYONE uses and benefits from the roadways directly or indirectly. Then go after all of the waste and nepotism on Penndot, eliminate tolls on the Turnpike and fire all of the $50k a year toll takers & disband the Turnpike Commission ...

I have a novel idea, STOP STICKING IT TO THE NON SEPTA RIDING PUBLIC!!!! Let the the people who use SEPTA, PAY FOR SEPTA!!! Why should I have to endure ANOTHER tax hike or a toll on an highway that is already congested and needs a toll booth like a hole in the head so somebody in Philly gets a cheap...

All of this seems much to do about nothing.

I see LOTS of pictures of sweepers, plows and blowers in action in the old days but SEPTA justs decides to shut down.

How did the Pennsy, Reading and Red Arrow handle snow? Better than this I bet!

Probably because people back then EXPECTED them to.

Huh, wha??

Cool site!! BTW - This 1914 PENNDOT map shows a spur/siding/whatever coming off the branch just beyond the station which is in the vicinity of those abutments we saw in the woods when we hiked the branch. Interestingly enough, earlier topo maps I have show nothing yet I seem to recall having a map t...

SemperFidelis wrote:The tracks being in place are mainly symbolic, having been unused for so long, but it's going to make it a heck of a lot harder once Pennsylvania wakes up and realizes the value of the line.

jrevans wrote:
Ah, our hike on the Reading's Bethlehem Branch. I guess the hike would be a lot easier now without rail.

I have some neat pictures from the roundhouse, or what was left of the roundhouse.