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Pennsylvania makes $16.1 million investment in rail freight
Ed,
That is a formatting error. Nothing to do with anything other than a boo boo.
Chuck
I sense that the failure to list “Westmoreland County” in bold might have something to do with not attracting attention to improvements which relate to the oil drilling.
The Strasburg railroad also does freight? How much?
Does this mean SEPTA will truly shut down? No big deal, for me, but, how are the drug dealers going to get around? Meanwhile, PA is crying, all the way to the bank, while they ‘directional drill’ under the NYS border. Gov. Andy (the Panderer) Cuomo (D-NY) has his head up his …
All this news about investing in freight sounds so wonderful. Now how about passenger and rail transit.
strasburg has gone from a “few cars” to "hundreds."currently they are looking to take over some of NS’s local traffic. no, septa is not shutting down but I suppose it shouldn’t surprise me to hear such ignorant comments from some schmuck in montana about how we’re all drug dealers on septa
@ David Aldinger - Also good news this year for PA passenger and rail transit. PA negotiated with Amtrak to keep The Pennsylvanian running between Pittsburgh-Harrisburg-Phila-NYC. (Its revenues are also up, according to Trains.) As reported previously on this board, after long House debate and inaction, the Assembly finally passed a bill basically as proposed by the governor to provide a steady funding stream for roads, bridges and mass transit across the Commonwealth.
Aug 2013 visiting Scranton PA my wife and I were looking ahead to see why traffic on Lackawanna Ave had stopped; there was a freight train crossing over on tracks that I’d never seen used back in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Freight and museum trolley plus Steamtown have brought a resurgence to rail in Northeast PA.