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East Penn owns the line but SEPTA still holds passenger rights to it. SEPTA has no plans for expansion anywhere except the Wawa line, and that is on hold. There may be few customers on the line, but there is also so much potential to this line and the area. I agree 10x over. However, OATS has reach...

There is a new article on wikipedia covering SEPTA's former diesel services. It is well sourced, so it may less of a wikipedia article and more of a good write-up

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEPTA_diesel_service

I agree PacoBell. BTW, I see you are in Phoenixville. I'm from there, spent a lot of time running around those tracks and tunnels. 69chargerse - yep, lived her since 2006. Missed the P'xville IT being used; sits in my back yard. The whistles from NS' Harrisburg line blow loud and clear at night. Gr...

SEPTA recycled one of their favourite excuses: "not cost effective". But building the high level platforms was.

... a bike trail that dead ends on both ends. Not very safe. I wouldn't want to have a heart attack back there. I think you'll find that bicyclists have many fewer heart attacks than the rest of the population. Have you ever heard of a bicyclist having a heart attack anywhere, much less on a rail-t...

The general concensus on this new East Penn is that is operated by businesemen who are uncooperative and anti progress for the region. We strongly suspect that these current owners had bought this railroad , like they did the Boyertown line up in Berks County a couple of years ago, then they strippe...

Bus riders are not train riders. Very different clietele. Always has been. Does anyone know what has become of Valley Forge Railways, Ltd. (VFRL). They were trying to obtain funding to continue service. Se below: Docket Number: AB_290_297_X Case Title: NORFOLK SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY-DISCONTINUANCE...

Does anyone know what has become of Valley Forge Railways, Ltd. (VFRL)?

Just to note that the Dennis Register reported last week that the South Dennis to Station Ave. (S.Yarmouth) rail trail extension is more a less a done deal,and that there's quite a bit of private funding to go along with whatever they get from the state. Old Bass River Rail Bridge has been gone sin...

But with the "commonwealth" having danced around the issue for the better part of a decade, it remains to be seen whether the extension will happen soon. Although ultimately it's up to us to speak up (preaching to the choir). Hopefully, we can hold the state's proverbial feet to the fire ...

All of the lines cut under SEPTA's tenure should be restored from the city out: 1) Fox Chase-Newtown, first and foremost 2) Elwyn-West Chester 3) Cynwyd-Ivy Ridge 4) Thorndale-Atglen Then: 5) Norristown-Pottstown 6) Lansdale-Quakertown Finally: 7) Pottstown-Reading-Pottsville 8) Quakertown-Bethlehem...

I grew up in Hightstown and watched the C&A being dismantled on my birthday (3/7/83) right before my eyes. Not much left in Hightstown except the bridge abutments near Main Street and the Peddie Lake. I watched freight cars being delivered to end-of-track just north of Winsdor until the early 19...

They did it! EBT is finally expanding...a dream come true. Here's to all the skeptics and non-believers...

Fantastic picture! Those poor, shoddy RDCs. They took such awful care of them. If memory serves correctly, the station and tracks are now gone, yes? The rails have been cut and/or paved over at all of the grade crossings but are generally intact along the Newtown branch, albeit severely overgrown a...

(1) Did the RDC cars run only between Newtown and Fox Chase or did they continue on to Center City? This may be a stupid question, but humor me. RDC service to Newtown that was operated by Conrail ended in August 1981. As previously stated, the RDC's did operate thru to Rdg Terminal with several tr...