Here is a list of Pennsylvania railroads. Very informative to me. Does anyone see a missing railroad?
Thanks,
Jack
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Quote from: jsmvmd on June 21, 2012, 02:44:34 PM
Here is a list of Pennsylvania railroads. Very informative to me. Does anyone see a missing railroad?
Thanks,
Jack
After you Copy, you then Paste.
Rich
and then you check ???
Quote from: jsmvmd on June 21, 2012, 02:44:34 PM
Here is a list of Pennsylvania railroads. Very informative to me. Does anyone see a missing railroad?
It looks to me like they're
all missing!
here are the ones i know of which were in service west of the susquehanna in about 1970.
penn central
baltimore & ohio
pittsburgh & lake erie
bessemer & lake erie
monongahela
union rr
montour
reading
erie lackawanna
norfolk & western
east erie commercial
monongahela connecting
lake erie franklin & clarion
pittsburg & shawmut
conemaugh & black lick
cambria & indiana
wellsville addison & galeton
winfield
johnstown & stoney creek
western maryland
maryland & pennsylvania
stewartstown
and a couple of paper railroads:
tylerdale connecting
waynesburg southern
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pennsylvania_railroads
http://www.abandonedrails.com/Pennsylvania
Something to be going with
wabash, pennsylvania, southern pacific, union pacific, burlington, nickle plate, santa fe.
Quote from: Paul Holmes on June 23, 2012, 01:13:32 AM
wabash, pennsylvania, southern pacific, union pacific, burlington, nickle plate, santa fe.
only pennsy and nickle plate ran in pa. the others all ran much further west.
I went to the site that 'Skarloey Railway' listed and found some information on the oldest railroad in Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia and Reading Railway, also part of the largest corporation in the world during the 1870's.
Has some interesting info about tourist site and museums on that website.
Lee F.
Copy, Paste, Check. Now I got it.....
Sorry, My Bad.
http://www.puc.state.pa.us/transport/railsafe/railsafe_railroadop.aspx
Quote from: jsmvmd on June 21, 2012, 02:44:34 PM
Does anyone see a missing railroad?
Lots, depending on era. Pennsylvania once boasted the highest number of narrow gauge railroads in the US. I forget the number, but into the 30s or 40s if I recall.
Later,
K
Jward
Nickel Plate also ran in Indiana
I know this to be true as we have a NPR museam in Knox County Indiana!!!!
I have spent a lot of time speaking with some of the old timers who frequent
the place and give tours to the kids!!!
Quote from: M1FredQ on June 26, 2012, 11:24:22 PM
Nickel Plate also ran in Indiana
Fred-
Absolutely! My family lived about three miles outside of Valparaiso, IN, when I was in grade school. We had to cross the NKP on our way into town and it was quite a show. We crossed a high-speed main where it curved. On the way to town we were on the concave side of the track and those big Berks seemed to be overhead and thundering like nothing else I had ever heard. As a little kid the trains kind of frightened me but I learned to appreciate them as I grew up. Truly? I would give almost anything to watch one fly by overhead again.
-- D
pne of the great spots in indiana was fort wayne, where the pennsy, nickle plate and wabaxh all crossed each other.
jeff-
Lafayette, too.
-- D