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Just as an aside, let me point out that one of the fnest collections of rail-oriented books in the Northeast is in the library of East Stroudsburg University -- several hundred, and quite a few of general ralfan interest. Although I'm an alumnus of Penn State rather than the State Unversity System (...

Tom Taber also produced a substantial collection of material on Pennsylvania looging roads, serialized in paperback form and formallly titled "The Logging Railroad Era of Lumbering in Pennsylvania" , Last I had heard, Mr.Taber was informally affiliated with the Williamsport Memorial Librar...

Out of necessity, this will be a long post, backed by the experience of nearly fifty years watching and researching -- mostly the former PRR Middle Division, but with some other examples thrown in. If any other members could add amplifications of corrections, it would be very much welcomed and appre...

With regard to safety devices, the last order, and probably more of the NKP's famous Berkshires reportedly had a device referred to as a "Nathan low-water alarm". (Some voice in the back of my head is suggesting that the same firm also manufactured "safety plugs".) Can anyone pro...

You can get the basics on any of the major players via the Value Line Investement Survey ; it's pricey (about $300/yr when I subscribed back in the Eighties, undoubtedly much more now, but many college libraries, and the public libraries in upscale areas (Lower Macungie Township here in the Lehigh V...

Excon90 that's a hard question to answer. There was a wreck on the Penn Central around 1975 or so where a freight train passed the distant signal to a lift bridge that was displaying an approach indication. IIRC it happened in Cleveland or Toledo, anyway the engineer started hollering on the radio ...

Posts are starting to show up stating that the injuries would have been avoided or minimized if passengers were required to wear seatbelts. That is probably a valid statement in an accident of this nature, but would be especially problematic for standees in crowded trains. Proving once again that t...

Once again, we are going to be treated to a demonstration of the media's inherent bias with regard to transportation accidents. When a plane hits the ground with double-, even triple-figure fatalaties in a pace like Buffalo or Pittsburgh, the story is forgoten in a few days. But an accident like thi...

CNJ had trackage rights over D&H berween Hudson yard on the north side of Wilkes-Barre (I believe the neighborhood was known as Miners' Mills at one time) and Minooka Junction a few miles south of Taylor. The operation was contolled from a CTC panel in the Hudson yard office. To complicate thing...

Near-fantasy threads like this one are the principal reason why I devote only a small fraction of the time I once did to railroad.net. Don't get me wrong; I was around for the days when Trains published its "Who Shot the Passenger Train?" issue; when the NEC project was just getting under ...

Another loss from the ranks of those who made "our little Parliament" such a stimulating place; Mr, Reasor will be recalled by those who shared the pleasure of his insights for as long as any of us are around.

For the past three years I've lived in Topton, PA, a closely-knit community of about 4000 people, not far from the college-centered and better-known community of Kutztown, and situated on Norfolk Southern's Reading Line -- the principal NS route into Metro New York and witness to the passage of abou...

Agreed; anyone who thinks that politicians, from either side of the spectrum, have any interest in a sensible, long-term approach has another think coming. The executives of very few, and very large freight roads remaining, know this as well; also that the winds of politics keep changing, sometimes ...

We concur; until the Diesel brought about the use of multiple unit controls, freights usually topped out at around 75 cars, so "second sections" and extras were common. In the late Sixties, only Rio Grande held to a "short, fast, frequent ideology, and Reading experimented with siding...

MODERATORS NOTE: LETS BRING THIS BACK TO THE EFFECT ON THE RAILWAYS IN AUSTRALIA. You guys are never going to agree on climate change.We all know each others positions on it , I think. y matures Agreed, Mr. Benton, and while I can't offer too much of an observation on Australian or New Zealand poli...