motor wrote:That debacle (that could've led to tragedy) prompted SEPTA to examine all its rail bridges, which ultimately led to RailWorks. Or so Gerry Williams tells us in Trains, Trolleys and Transit, his wonderful book on SEPTA's steel-wheeled transit services and their history.
motor
Both the Reading and the PRR had a huge deferred maintenance infrastructure backlog which SEPTA inherited with no cash to fix. Both roads were heading toward bankruptcy and weren't spending the money they did have on things like bridges.........
"The needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few, or the one".............. Spock
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