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

[Herb Brannon]

Click on the blue link below to view the current (as of 3/25/2012) rail
system map of PATransit. There is no service shown to Penn Station. Also no
service is shown on the old Rt 52-Allentown (Brown Line). I'm not sure I
understand what you mean by "No more service along former route 37?". The
Blue Line and the Red Line both serve Castle Shannon. I was just on a Blue
Line train last week which ran via Overbrook to Castle Shannon.
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 16:05, Joshua Dunfield <joshuad at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

> On 15 April 2012 21:45, Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net> wrote:
> > List
> >
> > 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.
>
>
>


-- 
Herb Brannon
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