January 29, 1956 Philadelphia trolley routes 26 and 52 were converted to bus operation with new GMC TDH-5106 diesel buses, ending trolley service on busy Chelten Avenue on Germantown. In Center City, Arch Street lost its trolleys when routes 9 and 48 were converted to bus operation with the new GMCs and were combined to form the present 48 bus route. Tracks were abandoned on Fairmount and Wallace from 15th to 23rd, 31st and 32nd from Columbia to York, and 4th and 5th from Snyder to Ritner but only temporally. All plain 8000s at Allegheny Depot were retired to Southern Depot for scrapping, as were remodeled 8000s from route 26. The remodeled 5200s were transferred to Luzerne Depot for route 60, retiring the last 10 5000s and some plain 5200s. Route 26 buses were transferred to Germantown Depot and route 50 PCC service was increased to compensate for the loss of route 9 in South Philadelphia.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Dennis M Linsky
On Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 7:20 AM Mark Tomlonson via <tomlonson=
[email protected]> wrote:
January 29, 2022 WATCO assumes operation of 328 miles of former CN trackage in Wisconsin as well as 143 miles in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The Wisconsin trackage will operate under the “Fox Valley & Lake Superior” name. Michigan operations will be headquartered in Newberry MI as a new division of the Grand Elk railroad.
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Mark Tomlonson
