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In 4/91 two tracks extended south from Inwood 2.6 miles to Martha. Next timetable I have is 10/94 which has two tracks to Empire.

NB to Newark is about 30 miles. Are you seriously trying to claim that running at 125mph versus 79mph wouldnt make a difference for the train that goes 30 miles without stopping? It would cut travel time from 24 minutes to 15 minutes. I have not checked your numbers, but they seem about right. Bett...

Anyone seen a pic taken from the concourse, looking down on a P5 or GG1?

Suspect they covered the tracks when they added catenary.

The route wasn't identical to the present PATH route, which swings slightly south around the NJT yard where Manh Tfr was. Don't think there was that much room between the PRR main to NY Penn and the PRR main to Jersey City. East of there, not much change. Then as now, six tracks thru Harrison statio...

Feb timetable says arr Pittsburgh 1525, lv 1600-- 7 hr 30 min each way, NY-Pittsburgh. Could they cross the Monongahela to wye it?

As I recall, turnaround time in Pittsburgh was maybe 45 minutes.

Offhand guess: the diesel had to stay on the train to supply HEP or some such thing. In any case, one pic at Newark shows the GG1 just ahead of (presumably coupled to) the westward Aerotrain diesel.

When locomotives burned anthracite, was it always culm? Or, was it always culm after 1920 or some other date?

You'd think someone would've gotten pics of the Aerotrain east of Newark, even tho it only lasted four months. Seems like a worthwhile subject. Only pics I've seen were by Dziobko, in the Newark station with a GG1. They're in that PRRTHS book "PRR in the 1950s" -- text by Baer.

Dziobko got pics of the westward Aerotrain at Newark, removing its GG1. Don't recall which Morning Sun they're in. The Aerotrain became a Phila-to-Pittsburgh train in June? 1956.

In 1995-97 the Diesel Express ran Hoboken to Trenton and Trenton to Newark. Around 1998 it became the Newark Express both ways-- no more Hoboken, and maybe no more diesel.

The Trenton "Diesel Express" was one way-- outbound I think. Think the public timetable showed it originating in Newark, not Hoboken.

NY Times 21 Jan 1964 p35 says a one-year experiment will start 1 Feb-- zone fares (for monthlies, anyway) at and south of Tarrytown and White Plains North. A monthly to GCT from any station in the city limits (including 125th St) would be $23. Irvington and Tarrytown were in the same zone ($31), unl...

How about using good (expensive) coal in the engines that need good coal to do their jobs, and cheap coal in the engines that can manage with it?

Next question: did need-good-coal engines and bad-coal-okay engines run on the same piece of RR? With two coaling towers side by side at each terminal?