ExCon90 wrote:mcgrath618 wrote:R36 Combine Coach wrote:CNJGeep wrote:Second question: That is the New York-Pittsburgh Subway. It is used very, very frequently to wye trains. Amtrak uses it every single day to spin the diesel off 42.
The Broadway last used it in early 1989 to run through to and from NYP and bypass 30 Street entirely.
Really? I thought the Broadway always stopped at 30th...
"Back in the day," all east-west trains stopped only at North Philadelphia, and platform signs at Suburban Station would indicate that a Chestnut Hill or Trenton local was a connection for a particular train to the West. Coming into Philadelphia from New York on a train for Harrisburg and beyond, conductors would announce "North Philadelphia, the ON-LY stop in Philadelphia." At that time there was an underground passageway from North Philadelphia station on the Broad St. Subway to the station (I suppose it's still there, but closed off for safety).
When the Broadway used the Pittsburgh Subway I think was also the time when the Washington section operated via 30th St. instead of the Port Road and made the 30th St. stop.
Everyone:
The engine change point on Trains #41 west and #40 east was transferred to Philadelphia from
Harrisburg with the April 27, 1980 schedule change. The Broadway Limited began to serve
Philadelphia by way of 30th Street Station instead of North Philadelphia.
The train would run "backwards" NYP-PHL under electric power and then forward with diesels.
The Summer 1983 schedule shows 12 minutes for #41 and 15 minutes for #40 to change
locomotives at PHL.
EC90: Yes-Trains #440 and #441 from Washington was rerouted via Philadelphia October 26, 1975
from running up the "Port Road" from Perryville, MD to Harrisburg. With the April 27, 1980 schedule
change the Broadway Limited would be combined in Philadelphia - for one year. With the April 26,
1981 schedule change #440 and #441 WAS-PHL would be eliminated.
I remember changes concerning the Broadway Limited because I rode these trains averaging
one round trip per year for the 12 year period between 1973 and 1984 between NYP-CHI.
Good travel memories there from those Broadway Limited trips!
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