by jlpack153
I live along the Trenton Cutoff in Lower Southamption Pa (NS Morrisville Line to those without a sense of history). and can remember the GG-1s hauling freight when I was a kid in the early 60's and remember watching conrail remove the overhead wire and reducing it to a single track in the 1980s.
When it was double tracked the line split around milepost 11 or 12 and ran maybe 50 yards apart with two bridges across the Neshaminy creek. Then just before Morrisville they came back together. There was an electrical substation between the tracks where they split in Lower Southampton. Does anybody know when and why this was done? I seem to remember something about it being two different grades to keep motive power from piling up in Morrisville because the east bound trains of raw material required more power than the west bound trains of finished manufactured goods.
Does this make sense and more important, when was this done?
When it was double tracked the line split around milepost 11 or 12 and ran maybe 50 yards apart with two bridges across the Neshaminy creek. Then just before Morrisville they came back together. There was an electrical substation between the tracks where they split in Lower Southampton. Does anybody know when and why this was done? I seem to remember something about it being two different grades to keep motive power from piling up in Morrisville because the east bound trains of raw material required more power than the west bound trains of finished manufactured goods.
Does this make sense and more important, when was this done?