This story is from Railroad Magazine of 1947 .
Pennsy`s Steel Thunderbolts
THE MIGHTY PRR`S four - and six track mainline between Washington and New York is famed as the scene of precision railroading unsurpassed any where in the world . Over the completely electrifed racetrack speed such famous name trains as The Congressional Limited, The Speaker and The President .
And streamliners of Southern roads like the Southern`s Southerner and the rejuvenated Seaboard Air Lines`s bids for traveler patronage. When you count passenger loads on such additional trains as The Sun Queen, The Vacationer and the luxurious Potomac, this line can safely bost that it carries the largest passenger traffic in the country.
First in traffic, the line is also first in weight of rails. Engineer glide their trains over 152-pound steel with the ease of the proverbial greased lightning, more then one Pennsy engineer has stated that he doesn`t begin counting the passenger cars until they outnumber fifteen. Inside track is 152 pounds in most places, with the slimmer outside rails weighing in at 131 pounds to the yard.
For added safety, Pennsy has installed position-light signals geared to the incredible traffic density and hundred-mile-per-hour speeds. Cab signals which give the engineman constant information on the condition of the block ahead, from an additional safety device.
Carrying mose passengers, hauling more freight then any other road in the world and operating more track miles then any signle railroad in the country, Pennsy naturally ington-New York mainline is the pride spot of the system.
The end.
Leonard
Pennsy`s Steel Thunderbolts
THE MIGHTY PRR`S four - and six track mainline between Washington and New York is famed as the scene of precision railroading unsurpassed any where in the world . Over the completely electrifed racetrack speed such famous name trains as The Congressional Limited, The Speaker and The President .
And streamliners of Southern roads like the Southern`s Southerner and the rejuvenated Seaboard Air Lines`s bids for traveler patronage. When you count passenger loads on such additional trains as The Sun Queen, The Vacationer and the luxurious Potomac, this line can safely bost that it carries the largest passenger traffic in the country.
First in traffic, the line is also first in weight of rails. Engineer glide their trains over 152-pound steel with the ease of the proverbial greased lightning, more then one Pennsy engineer has stated that he doesn`t begin counting the passenger cars until they outnumber fifteen. Inside track is 152 pounds in most places, with the slimmer outside rails weighing in at 131 pounds to the yard.
For added safety, Pennsy has installed position-light signals geared to the incredible traffic density and hundred-mile-per-hour speeds. Cab signals which give the engineman constant information on the condition of the block ahead, from an additional safety device.
Carrying mose passengers, hauling more freight then any other road in the world and operating more track miles then any signle railroad in the country, Pennsy naturally ington-New York mainline is the pride spot of the system.
The end.
Leonard
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