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Re: February 26 in RR History


 

February 26, 1951 It was the Richmond Hill trolley line that was converted to bus operation, ending trolley service in Queens. Now the Q-55 bus.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? February 26, 1953 The Pennsylvania Railroad's Chinese Wall on Market Street west of 15th in Philadelphia was demolished. The Broad Street Station came down 2 months later.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? February 26, 1956 North Philadelphia trolley routes 8 and 39, the 2 Dauphin Street and Susquehanna Avenue routes each with a branch east of Front Street, were converted to bus operation, ending trolley service between Girard and Allegheny Avenues west of 18th Street and east of 5th Street. Both routes returned to Allegheny Depot, ending the short restoration of Ridge Depot as an active car barn with the plain 8000-seeies from both routes and also route 3 were left there and the barn was partially boarded up with the scrap tracks at Southern Depot being converted to house buses.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? February 26, 1976 To replace NYCTA R-1/9 subway cars on the BMT Eastern Division which were out of service, cars 1372-1409 were transferred from the IND Queens Boulevard lines to the BMT Eastern Division.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Dennis M Linsky


On Wed, Feb 26, 2025, 6:47 AM Mark Tomlonson via <tomlonson=[email protected]> wrote:

February 26, 1973 The Chessie System Inc. Is formed from the Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio and Western Maryland railroads.

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Mark Tomlonson

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