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I guess these pre-dates SEPTA, but I'd love to have the Liberty Bell over the P&W and beyond back...although it would probably take 5 hours just to get to Allentown. Lehigh Valley Transit's hourly limiteds used to make the Upper Darby--Allentown run in as little as 1:58. Yes, that far predates ...

I'm guessing PTC purchased the right of way, as this was the route of the #6 trolley to Willow Grove. From what I've always understood, the route 6 line to Willow Grove was always a trolley undertaking because they owned Willow Grove Park, a very common practice by tractions companies in the late 1...

I too smiled... But after consideration, I don't think there is enough potential freight business between Philly & the Lehigh Valley via Bethlehem. If there were, I seriously doubt Conrail would have abandoned frieght service north & south on the RDG Bethlehem Branch. Think aobut this... Con...

The Philadelphia & Reading going bankrupt that same year and the depression of 1893 were probably the main reasons it was never built. Even today, there's not much between New Hope and Easton besides Reigelsville. The grades coming into Easton are tough. The only way I could see it being built i...

I hate to admit this, but if I were in the state legislature, I couldn't advocate futher rail transit funding to west Philly... Granted the MFL & Surface-Subways are not completely adequate, however, if a major project is to been done, it should be extending the BSS or MFL out Roosevelt Blvd. It...

Also recall a couple of low wooden trestles over a stream or pond that groaned as we passed over.... I think a few years ago the city wanted to take out the remaining tressles from Little Lehigh Creek park. But the anglers protested. That part of the park and creek was purposely designed for fishin...

The restoration of Bethlehem - Allentown, Pa. service happened after Amtrak Day. The Bethlehem-Allentown extention was the work of Fred Rooney, the Lehigh Valley's Ccongressman at the time. He was a fairly high ranking Democrat, first elected in '63, and chaired a sub-committee. He was able to secu...

In 1993, SEPTA borrowed three soon-to-be-retired U34CH diesels from NJ Transit. Two units handled a diesel train from West Trenton to 30th Street and the other ran a Lansdale-30th Street diesel train. Okay, another annoying question... Last Thursay, I saw a big diesel, not one of those little switc...

People are also incredibly lazy and cannot be bothered to actually research the status of railroad lines near their possible future homes. AMEN! I worked with a woman who lives in a development next to then Conrail's, now Norfolk Southern's, spur from Alburtis to the old Trojan Power (I think it's ...

[In all seriousness, some years ago a coworker mentioned to me that he would be taking a bus to West Philly after work. I suggested that the Subway-Surface lines would be faster and he said yes, that's what he was riding - "you know, the buses that run in the tunnels next to the subway". ...

I got to ride the Fox Chase diesel train during the 1992 Railworks season and the West Trenton and Lansdale diesel trains several times during the 1993 Railworks season, and those were only slightly better. Didn't make it to 70 between stops on the West Trenton, but that's to be expected with diese...

Did anyone else notice that the Newtown Square Branch of the Pennsy is shown as being Septa-owned (at least the abandoned section at the time west of Grassland? Hate to say it, but I never gave that a thought. Growing up in the Lehigh Valley, I've always been more interested in the Reading, Lehigh ...

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I noes my history! And my'es grammer... Pained me to type those first four words!

Well, well! This is the first time I've ever heard of an "addenda expansion" having been printed for Mr. Pawson's book. Alas, I think the chances of acquiring a set of addenda now are on par with discovering how the Edmund Fitzgerald really sank. I also starting to think you'd have better...

Do you recall if the pull-pull train was still wearing its rather worn-down, two-tone green Reading Company paint on the outside when you took that trip, or had the locomotives and coaches been repainted into the SEPTA scheme? When paint was new-ish, the mostly bright-white train looked absolutely ...