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The MBTA has been operating push-pull trains for 26 years without such a calamity occurring. I'm sure there have been dozens, if not hundreds, of grade crossing collisions involving cab cars during that time Didn't in 1980 or 1981 an MBTA Train operating in the "push" mode collide head-on ...

>>The LNE passed east of Sussex town, running alongside Lewisburg Creamery Road. There's a bridge carrying NJ 23 over the right of way. The DL&W crossed at grade on the north side of the bridge, and the LNE had trackage rights into the town. The creamery has been rebuilt into a modern office bui...

And my last topic on the Lehigh & New England (for now)... The Louisville & Nashville was the largest purchaser of former Lehigh & New England locomotives. I have heard that the FA's (and FB's) did not last very long on the L&N before they were traded in during the early/mid 1960s, b...

And yet another question... Raymond International bought several L&NE RS2s and many gons, hoppers and other rolling stock. According to the books on the L&NE, Raymond was building a railroad in the Nimba Mountains of Liberia. Folklore says the RS2s were on a ship which sunk in the Atlantic, ...

Hi folks, Does anyone recall seeing unrepainted L&NE rolling stock (boxcars, covered hoppers, open hoppers etc). after the railroad's demise in 1961? I have seen photos of several black billboard "LNE" boxcars on the Susquehanna in 1969. Who owned these cars after the L&NE was aban...

I think it was the McMahon & Tate Advertising Agency... LOL...

Seriously, I think it was Lippincott & Margulies, who probably charged the RR a mint for picking a basically black and white paint scheme...

-Mike

Hi Ed, Mr. Pinsly did own the Suncook Valley in NH very briefly- he purchased it in the Fall of 1951 and it was abandoned in 1952. The SV's 44-Tonner (#3), ended up on the Sanford & Eastern after the SV was abandoned. You are right with the trivia question- most of Pinsly's lines were at one tim...

How about a lesser known individual in railroad circles- Samuel Pinsly (1899-1977). Mr. Pinsly owned several "famous" shortline railroads such as the Hoosac Tunnel & Wilmington, Saratoga & Schuylerville, Suncook Valley, Claremont & Concord, Sanford & Eastern, Montpelier &am...

Hi folks, Does anyone know whatever became of the 52-mile Eagle Mountain RR in California? Owned by Kaiser Steel Corp., this line connected with the Southern Pacific in the Mojave Desert to the east of Los Angeles and ran 50+ miles north to an iron ore mine. The railroad employed Baldwin roadswitche...

Hi Folks, From what I understand, Conrail operated the Ann Arbor RR in Ohio and Michigan from April 1, 1976 until April 1977 when the Michigan Interstate Railway (d/b/a Ann Arbor Railway System) took over. Does anyone remember CR's operation of the Ann Arbor? Did the AA's power (GP-35s and RS-1s) ge...

I saw the return run of the SA-31. It was a light engine move with the aforementioned Norfolk Southern GP38-2, #5278. Engine was moving long-hood forward with no cars at a pretty good clip. Came northbound through the Hazlet station right before 6 PM. I thought I was seeing things when the NS locomo...