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Re: [LakeStatesTraction] December 1 in RR History

 

December 1, 1946 The City of Philadelphia and the State of Pennsylvania signed a law eliminating the PRR's Broad Street Station and the Chinese Wall on Market Street west of City Hall.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?December 1, 1955 BMT Broadway-Brighton Beach local trains began using the IND Queens Boulevard line to and from Continental Avenue-Forest Hills with the opening of the 60th Street Tunnel connection. Ridership was low at first but then it improved.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Dennis M Linsky


On Tue, Dec 1, 2020, 6:59 AM Mark Tomlonson via <tomlonson=[email protected]> wrote:

December 1, 1905 Opening of the Marion & Bluffton Traction Company (IN), 32 miles.

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December 1, 1905 A group of investors meets to organize the Chicago-New York Electric Air Line Railroad. The idea behind the line is to make a railroad as nearly straight and level between the two namesake cites as physically possible. The line was to be made up of companies that would each build a short stretch. A small segment in Indiana will be all that ever opens.

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December 1, 1917 The Dayton, Springfield & Xenia Southern (OH Interurban) abandons its line between Beavertown [present day Kettering near the intersection of Wilmington Pike and Dorothy Lane] and Spring Valley.

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Mark Tomlonson
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