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And on the BSL: Is the Alma Loop at Cottman & Castor behind the Firstrust Bank building? I am actually very familiar with that area. What about at the Bells Corner Loop behind the Dunkin' Donuts, where Castor becomes Bustleton? How about another Trans. Ctr. there. And I'm assuming then the line...

At that point in time the future of commuter rail was still a huge question, but the subsidies were designed to keep the most heavily used services running until a long range plan could be developed. Check out this link: http://www.multimodalways.org/docs/railroads/companies/PRR/PRR%20CNJ%20Passeng...

Maybe combine it with a restored 52nd St. Station I like that thinking, but the only practical connection would be the Route 10 Trolley, and that's something like a 30 minute or so trip to reach City Hall. I'm a lazy man. I prefer one seat rides. The more I think about it. Don't wait until the BSL ...

-Extend Cynwyd to a larger park and ride or expand the current terminus. -Extend the BSL past Pattison right up to the edge of the Wells Fargo Center parking lot. Create an "I-95" park and ride using the current space at the Wells Fargo Center. Space in the Navy Yard could also be used to...

I believe it....they killed off the Seashore Branch so it wouldn't have to be included in the Aldene Plan (it was supposed to be originally). They seemed to cut the most heavily traveled trains, which were during rush hours, and made schedule changes which made traveling and connections not as conv...

Maybe somebody here can answere a questions that's been bugging me for a while. After the implementation of the Aldene Plan, I heard that the CNJ was required to run a daily train to and from Allentown, PA. I also heard that they scheduled the run for something like 3 A.M. in order to fulfill their ...

Thanks for the info. I was wondering what that was. I drove past the hump on along River Road in Allentown yesterday and saw the roofs of passenger cars on the south side of the hump. Because NS was pulling a line of cars eastbound over the hump, I couldn't see anything but the roofs, and it was too...

....cost effective to build a bigger parking lot in P'burg?... Why should Phillipsburg have a big ugly parking garage so Pennsylvanians have someplace to park on their trip to New York? Or the traffic? Out in Alpha where the railroad crosses under I-78 seems much better. Keep in mind that SEPTA or ...

I really wist they would get going and build the Schuylkill Valley Metro between the Norristown Transportation Center and Reading, PA. They are talking about extending eletricfication from Lansdale out to Telford on the Reading Company's Bethlehem Branch. It would be great to continue up to Allento...

As I've previously advocated, the best place for a station is the old Saucon Yard facility above Silvex Road. If service were extended to Allentown, you'd have to negotiate with Norfolk Southern and RJ Corman for trackage rights. If potential usage/demand is high then a large parking lot/station cou...

I'm not aware of the Reading having electrified the Stoney Creek Branch. I had to visit my dad after I made my post. I dug out one of his books on the Reading. You're correct, the Stoney Creek branch was only electrifed to that point west of the turnpike at the substation. The substation wasn't the...

Why not further towards Lansdale? You can still see some "H" poles on the west side of the Turnpike (driving southbound on I-476 makes it easier to see the poles). I believe that the Stoney Brook branch was electried at one time from Lansdale to Norristown all the way to the mainline to P...

There's one in Bethlehem, near Moravian College. It's at the bottom of that hill/bluff where W. Elizabeth Ave turns into Mach Chunk Rd., and then turned west into Schoenersville Rd. Although I'm not sure if it was installed by the Lehigh & New England or the Jersey Central when they took over li...

We have a feature in the February 2012 issue of Railfan & Railroad by Olev Taremae -otto- I read the article last week. It was fairly informative. However, at the risk of seeming overly critical I got the distinct feeling that Olev was not very familiar with Allentown. Although that's a great s...

The Allentown service by SEPTA was very short-lived. The local congressman, Fred Rooney chaired a sub-committee that got SEPTA extra funding for extending service to Allentown. However, he lost his re-election bid in '78 to Don Ritter thus ending the extra funding and, subsequently, the Allentown se...