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Post by cpr4200 on Jun 18, 2024 6:02:22 GMT -8
Did the Pennsy's New York Division include pretty much everything north of Philadelphia (or Trenton?)
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Post by Baikal on Jun 18, 2024 12:03:57 GMT -8
Did the Pennsy's New York Division include pretty much everything north of Philadelphia (or Trenton?)
1941 PRR division maps inc New York Division:
New England Chapter
Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society
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Post by hudsonyard on Jun 18, 2024 21:01:11 GMT -8
NY division did include Trenton and the entire Bel-Del. Which in the later Penn Central years was wasteland for operators. A friend who worked the territory as a low man on the NY division towerman list has a couple great stories about it's later years. My favorite is him having to drive to Frenchtown in the middle of the night to fix up a train and having to break into the station to get train orders and K-cards and the block phone being disconnected with instructions to go to the nearby gas station (radios could barely reach trains south of Phillipsburg, and reaching MG or FAIR in Trenton was out of the question) so that night a northbound tonnage ore train had it's orders copied and repeated from the NY division dispatcher in a pay phone booth.
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Post by ernestbaron on Jul 2, 2024 8:13:25 GMT -8
Did the Pennsy's New York Division include pretty much everything north of Philadelphia (or Trenton?) The division point on the New York Mainline, now known as the NEC, was around a mile north of Holmesburg Junction. |
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