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Did the PRR ever send anything more than 'interurban' cars to Rochester? Coaches and/or Pullmans? Which depot did they use, and what were the destinations served?

Anybody have any info on this line? I've recently seen this line featured in a couple of videos (2 different videographers who hop freights) and was just blown away by the scenery as well as the physical aspects of the route, including something like 32 tunnels, through some of the roughest mountain...

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My dad (now deceased) grew up in Philadelphia and his first actual job was as a 'boilerman's assistant' at the Pennsylvania Railroad's roundhouse. During the war, he was stationed in Chicago (navy), his mother was stationed in St. Louis (army), and his grandmother in Philadelphia and his father in B...

As a kid, I took the Empire Service between Utica and Rochester a couple of time in the last year before Amtrak took things over. The cars were getting ratty, maintenance was deferred, and cleanliness was spotty at best. But the worst were the stations, especially Rochester, which at the time was st...

The clapboards it's leaning against are generally 4" wide. You can do the math.

FWIW, according to my father, most of these locomotives were de-streamlined DURING the war, as part of a wartime metal drive, not after the war.

I don't know how many posting on this thread know people in the 'snowmobile crowd'. These people will trailer their machines from hundreds of miles away just to ride them like a bunch of yahoos going from bar to bar. I doubt more than half of them on any given winter's day are below the legal blood-...

Just a quick question: Do the locomotives they use still run on coal, or oil? The clouds of coal smoke are part of the experience, but people trackside aren't always of the same mind...

Mass electrification (such as the Pennsylvania Railroad did in the early 20th century) made a lot of sense in urban areas during the steam locomotive age; extensive coal smoke from low-speed trains made urban areas less livable, so there was greater incentive to invest in the infrastructure needed. ...

Subris, I think you are in the wrong location. You seem to be asking about mining equipment (if I understand your poor English correctly). This is a forum about railroads, not subterranean haulage. I frankly don't know how many degrees any sort of equipment is capable of, but with a rack-and-pinion ...

Down in NJ, they've shown that you can include a single track ROW with a bike trail (they have a fence keeping them apart), so I don't see why you could combine a train ROW with a snowmobile/biking/hiking trail. What I'd really like to see them do is complete a lightweight set of rails through, some...

To give you an idea just how bad the flood was, do you know those switchbacks of the Genesee river in Letchworth? The river actually crested over the ridges leading to the curves. Forty ton boulders were moved along the riverbed.

For longer distance, surveying by then utilized the same sort of telescope-and-staff method common until newer electronic systems became available. Surveyors did essentially all of the western states 150 years ago this way, so something as simple as a railroad isn't a big deal. A "chain" i...

Saw another train last night through Rochester, all stacked containers, with 2 units spliced in, and it seemed to be longer than the usual ~100 car consists, too. what is the maximum length on a train through this area now?