[PRCo] Re: Fw: [Mileage] PAT Penn Sta. Spur

[Joshua Dunfield]

On 15 April 2012 21:45, Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net> wrote:
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> Is this correct?  No more service along former route 37?

Maybe he meant the Arlington Avenue service (52 Allentown, more
recently called the Brown Line).  Wikipedia says that was canceled in
March 2011, though, not 2012.

> Also, I had thought service to Union Station had ended some time ago.  Did it end and then get reinstated, or what?  When I rode the first afternoon trip a few years ago, the motorman had to stop and unlock the gate in the cyclone fence and move it off the tracks.  Hardly rapid transit!

IIRC, in the early '00s there were exactly two afternoon trips from
Penn Station.  Wikipedia backs me up there:

"As late as 2001, the line would only see, if any, up to two afternoon
rush hour trains. ... The station continues to be used in extremely
limited circumstances, including usage as part of the Port Authority's
detoured transportation routes following Super Bowl XLV on 6 February
2011.[6]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_Station_(PAT_station)

-j.