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Re: R.J. CORMAN Allentown operations

 by planettelex ¦  Fri Feb 17, 2012 3:19 pm ¦  Forum: R.J.Corman Railroad Group ¦  Topic: R.J. CORMAN Allentown operations ¦  Replies: 13 ¦  Views: 7784

http://www.stb.dot.gov/decisions/readingroom.nsf/fc695db5bc7ebe2c852572b80040c45f/dea1adc73eacab648525793b0055668d?OpenDocument "By petition filed on August 15, 2011, RJCN ... states it intends to restore rail service over the line [Barber’s Quarry Industrial Track], and that it and Allentown E...

Re: LV main north of Allentown abandoned now?

 by planettelex ¦  Thu Apr 22, 2010 10:28 am ¦  Forum: Pennsylvania Railfan ¦  Topic: LV main north of Allentown abandoned now? ¦  Replies: 27 ¦  Views: 4184

thanks for the update and photos... at least the line is in use for something...

Re: LV main north of Allentown abandoned now?

 by planettelex ¦  Thu Mar 25, 2010 8:28 am ¦  Forum: Pennsylvania Railfan ¦  Topic: LV main north of Allentown abandoned now? ¦  Replies: 27 ¦  Views: 4184

I'm not usually in the area, but I drove over the track on the Route 22 bridge yesterday, and it looked like some brush clearing had occurred and continued north out of sight from the bridge... any recent news on the line? thanks...

Re: Newtown line leased to Montco for recreational trail

 by planettelex ¦  Wed Dec 02, 2009 11:26 am ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: Newtown line leased to Montco for recreational trail ¦  Replies: 292 ¦  Views: 87624

If the moderators will indulge an off-topic discussion: Fictional characters like Thomas the Tank Engine are protected by copyright laws. The owner of the copyrighted material retains exclusive rights to distribute and modify the material, and in general the owner can limit the use of the copyrighte...

Re: Fatal Beating at 13th and Market Subway Concourse

 by planettelex ¦  Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:30 pm ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: Fatal Beating at 13th and Market Subway Concourse ¦  Replies: 24 ¦  Views: 4100

16 year-olds aren't mentally developed enough to know right from wrong? WTF! not knowing and not caring are two different matters. Since these sorry excuses for human beings are juveniles, we can all look forward to our justice system needing to deal with them again for whatever serious crimes they ...

Re: EMF on SEPTA Trains

 by planettelex ¦  Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:56 am ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: EMF on SEPTA Trains ¦  Replies: 5 ¦  Views: 961

first, the 3mG limit around an MRI machine is much more likely intended to prevent interference with the magnetic imaging, rather than for any health related reason (ie. the CRT monitor jitter/distortion that is caused by approx. 10mG). second, while various international health organizations have p...

Re: RDG Co. Bethlehem Branch

 by planettelex ¦  Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:43 pm ¦  Forum: Reading Company ¦  Topic: RDG Co. Bethlehem Branch ¦  Replies: 542 ¦  Views: 159887

For what it's worth, I wrote a letter to the editor of the Morning Call this morning.... we'll see if they bother to publish any of it.

Re: Bethlehem Railroad Line - right of Way Track Cleanup

 by planettelex ¦  Sun Jul 06, 2008 11:55 am ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: Bethlehem Railroad Line - right of Way Track Cleanup ¦  Replies: 68 ¦  Views: 11015

Lower Saucon Township had been trying to convert it into a trail... from May 8, 2008 Morning Call: Representatives of three municipalities met with SEPTA officials to continue discussing a project which will convert an unused railroad bed into a bicycle and pedestrian pathway, Lower Saucon Council w...

Re: RDG Co. Bethlehem Branch

 by planettelex ¦  Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:37 pm ¦  Forum: Reading Company ¦  Topic: RDG Co. Bethlehem Branch ¦  Replies: 542 ¦  Views: 159887

jfrey, I was thinking more along the lines of an ESPN cab ride for myself! :) ..although, it sure would be cool to ride on a rail bike from shelly to lansdale (since I won't be able to ride a train). JimE, I imagine there are at least several of us on this board who would be willing volunteers for s...

Re: RDG Co. Bethlehem Branch

 by planettelex ¦  Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:04 pm ¦  Forum: Reading Company ¦  Topic: RDG Co. Bethlehem Branch ¦  Replies: 542 ¦  Views: 159887

yeah, I agree... the fact that we don't have LV-Bethlehem or LV-NYC rail service isn't even the most annoying part... it is the fact that the service existed in the not too distant past and now the infrastructure is just wasting away. The idea that trains to Philly ran on this line during my lifetim...

Re: RDG Co. Bethlehem Branch

 by planettelex ¦  Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:18 pm ¦  Forum: Reading Company ¦  Topic: RDG Co. Bethlehem Branch ¦  Replies: 542 ¦  Views: 159887

For anyone who lives in the area, the PUC is having a public hearing on the proposed PPL power line in Richland Twp. One of the rejected alternative routes for the power line was over the Bethlehem Branch ROW. Meeting is July 14th 7PM at the Springtown Volunteer Fire Company on Route 212 for anyone ...

Re: Reading Bethlehem branch

 by planettelex ¦  Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:17 pm ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: Reading Bethlehem branch ¦  Replies: 66 ¦  Views: 23531

For anyone who lives in the area, the PUC is having a public hearing on the proposed PPL power line in Richland Twp. One of the rejected alternative routes for the power line was over the Bethlehem Branch ROW. Meeting is July 14th 7PM at the Springtown Volunteer Fire Company on Route 212 for anyone ...

Re: Buried RR Cars at Dixe Cup

 by planettelex ¦  Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:38 am ¦  Forum: Pennsylvania Railfan ¦  Topic: Buried cars at Dixe Cup - Wilson, PA ¦  Replies: 5 ¦  Views: 1615

The SPV rail atlas of PA lists the line to the Dixie Cup plant as an LV line, although it appears to have had an interchange with the CNJ branch that branched from the CNJ main line, through Prospect Park and into Wilson (a bridge over Freemansburg Ave. is still there, and this may now be a trail), ...

Re: R.J. CORMAN Allentown operations

 by planettelex ¦  Fri Jun 27, 2008 3:29 pm ¦  Forum: R.J.Corman Railroad Group ¦  Topic: R.J. CORMAN Allentown operations ¦  Replies: 13 ¦  Views: 7784

Sorry to revive a long dead topic, but I didn't find any more recent info in a quick search of this site... Anyway, I just recently drove through Allentown and the ex-LV rails at the crossing at Hamilton Ave. (and both the main and the branch at crossings on Union Ave.) look pretty well overgrown an...

 by planettelex ¦  Sun Jun 01, 2008 10:43 am ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: MOVIE: "The Happening" scenes on SEPTA ¦  Replies: 38 ¦  Views: 6758

When this movie was being filmed, I lived next to the Trenton Cutoff near Malvern and one Saturday or Sunday morning I happened to see Septa #61 hauling the Bomber coaches on the Cutoff... I had no idea what was going on at the time...but there was another thread on this site that mentioned it...whi...