Re: This Weekend in RR History
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March 29, 1959 Philadelphia bus routes O from Logan to Huntingdon Valley and Y on Cottman Avenue were combined to form the present Y/70 bus route from the Fern Rock terminus of the Broad Street Subway to Torresdale and Cottman Avenues. The combined bus route connected with PCC cars on routes 47 and 56. The portion of bus route O north of Cottman Avenue was abandoned because it duplicated route N. The portion of bus route O south of Fern Rock was replaced by a short extension of bus route C (Somerville division).? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? March 29, 1959 In order to give Callowhill Depot in West Philadelphia a full assignment of Westinghouse PCC cars, GE cars 2501-14 were transferred to Woodland and cars 2645-58 went to Callowhill which had cars 2645-80 on route 10 and all-electrics 2091-2115 and 2701-07 on route 15 which gets some of route 10's 2600s to fill out schedules.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Dennis M Linsky
On Fri, Mar 28, 2025, 7:34 AM Mark Tomlonson via <tomlonson= [email protected]> wrote:
March 28, 1836 Michigan Territory charters seven railroads in a single day.
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March 28, 1846 The Central Rail Road of Michigan is sold by the state to a group of New York investors for $2 million [2025: $82.52 million] and becomes the Michigan Central.
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March 29, 1869 The Kalamazoo, Allegan & Grand Rapids Railroad (later LS&MS, NYC, PC) is completed from Allegan to Grand Rapids MI. (Some sources say March 1.)
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March 29, 1960 Revenue steam ends on the Grand Trunk Western as 2-8-2 4070 pulls a 50 car freight from Pontiac to Durand MI.
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March 30, 2021 CN and Watco announce an agreement for Watco to buy 900 miles of rail lines in Wisconsin, Michigan and Ontario owned by Wisconsin Central Railroad and Algoma Central.
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Mark Tomlonson
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