[PRCo] Re: NMRA Home Page

Mon Jan 8 13:40:19 EST 2007

OK.   You got me.   I'm laughing.    OK guys.   You got to go to the  
East Penn meet in Villanova in May to meet Bob Dietrich, live and in  
person.   It's a great opportunity for the western Pennsylvania guys  
to meet the eastern Pennsylvania electric railway types.   And you'll  
get a chance to ride whatever fantrips they're running.   And don't  
forget the myriad of electric railway opportunities in the area ...

1.  The Northeast Corridor run by Amtrak from Washington to New York

2.  The "upgraded" or reelectrified Harrisburg service under  
Amtrak.   You may have read that they redid the rail and the trolley  
wire.   Truth is they forgot to do the wire.   It's worn pretty  
thin.   It's still 1938 wire.   Ride it now before a pantograph rips  
it down.   They're running old Metroliner coaches (the same cab cars  
they moved to San Diego service a few years back) in push-pull  
service with AEM-7s.   Service has been upgraded to 90 mph.   The  
rail is now all welded on concrete ties.   For those who don't  
understand ... Philadelphia to Lancaster and Harrisburg isn't country  
any longer ... it's part of a wide (50 to 150 mile) band of suburbs  
that stretches from Maine to North Carolina punctuated here and there  
by an occasional city.   He now have 30 minute headways to Philly in  
the morning rush hour!   There's well over a million people in the  
counties along that line outside of Philadelphia.

3.  SEPTA's electric commuter service to Wilmington, Trenton,  
Downingtown and Paoli, Chestnut Hill West, the Airport, West Trenton,  
Chestnut Hill East, Norristown, Cynwyd (weekdays only), Media, and  
Doylestown.

4.  New Jersey Transit's service from Trenton to New York ... they  
run the Clockers now.   NJT has thirty minute headways from  
Trenton.   SEPTA has hourly headways to Trenton from Philadelphia.    
If you use the local trains, the fare is only a fraction of what  
Amtrak charges.   And there is also diesel connecting service from  
Lindenwold to Atlantic City.

5.  The Lindenwold High Speed Line from the Locust Street Subway in  
Philadelphia to Lindenwold NJ ... 24 hour service.

6.  SEPTA's Market - Frankford (broad gauge) subway elevated and  
Broad and Ridge (standard gauge) subway lines

7.  SEPTA's city division subway surface lines 10, 11, 13 and 36 out  
of City Hall station.   And Girard Ave. (route 15) using the air- 
conditioned remanufactured cars that look like PCCs.

8.  SEPTA's Red Arrow Division trolley lines to Sharon Hill and Media  
from the end of the elevated at 69th St.

9.  SEPTA route 100 (the former P&W) from 69th St. to Norristown.

And there's a great Korean restaurant on West Garrett Road just up  
from 69th Street Terminal.   I would also recommend Gateway to India  
in Frazer.   These are in addition to the list that East Penn is  
putting out.   They're two of my personal favorites.   Bob might add  
the Chinese place in Ardmore but I cannot remember the name.

On Jan 8, 2007, at 10:08 AM, Bob Dietrich wrote:

> Thanks Fred but the credit goes to Gary Reighn who put together and
> maintains the EPTC web site.  He has done yeoman's work keeping it  
> up to
> date and fresh looking. Something that you'll notice hasn't been  
> done with
> my SHJ site.
>
> You failed to mention, Fred, a major reason for attending the East  
> Penn Meet
> is to see South Hills Junction live and in-person....
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of  
> Fred
> Schneider
> Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 8:08 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: NMRA Home Page
>
>   GOSH MY TYPING IS TERRIBLE!
> On Jan 7, 2007, at 1:42 PM, Fred Schneider wrote:
>
>> Congratulations to Bob for being selected as the Webmaster's
>> Choice!   I only wish I had know this two days sooner so I could have
>> personally said it at dinner before the East Penn meeting on Friday.
>>
>> And a heads up to those of you in the east: this is the year for East
>> Penn's every other year traction meet.    Even if you don't buy
>> anything, it's a great place to meet all your old friends.  I usually
>> see John Bromley there and I'm pretty sure he's coming this year.
>> I'm met Roy King from Dallas and even friends all the way from
>> Phoenix.   Kevin Farrell using comes from Boston and has a stand set
>> up.   Most of the major vendors are there.   And you'll be lucky
>> because I'll probably be in Austria then.    There are two links
>> below, the first for the East Penn home page:
>>
>> http://www.eastpenn.org/
>>
>> and, to save you trouble navigating, the second for the spring meet
>> May 4, 5 and 6:
>>
>> http://www.eastpenn.org/meet.html
>>
>> And thanks Bob, for reminding me that I'm old enough to remember John
>> Allen's Gorre and Daphetid Railroad ... the original 4x8 foot
>> railroad from the late 1940s.   That man was a master had to invent
>> had to be the one who put the word super in front of detailing.
>>
>> On Jan 7, 2007, at 12:05 PM, Bill Robb wrote:
>>
>>> NMRA's home page is featuring the East Penn Traction Club's web
>>> site as the Webmaster's Choice
>>> http://www.nmra.org/#Webmaster
>>>
>>> Also there is a picture of the South Hills module:
>>>
>>> http://www.nmra.org/photo2/0611-1L.jpeg
>>>
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