Penn Central ran all the former PRR freight down the NEC and interchanged with the southern roads at Potomac yard I assume. Where did Conrail do the same once Potomac was closed? Of course now with NS..they had a way around the area via the B-Line etc... But Conrail didn't have that.
Did PRR use what is now the CSX Philly sub as a NEC bypass for freight?
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Mike:
Conrail would have used Hagerstown, MD for the interchange to NS.
Insofar as PRR using what would have been a B&O line as an NEC bypass, the answer is no. PRR ran their freight trains on the corridor intermixed with the passenger. To bypass the 30th Street Station complex, the PRR routed freight trains over onto the west Philadelphia "High Line". This is a large steel tviaduct that diverted from the corridor main at Zoo Tower and returned to the corridor, I believe at Arsenal.
Curt
Mike:
Conrail would have used Hagerstown, MD for the interchange to NS.
Insofar as PRR using what would have been a B&O line as an NEC bypass, the answer is no. PRR ran their freight trains on the corridor intermixed with the passenger. To bypass the 30th Street Station complex, the PRR routed freight trains over onto the west Philadelphia "High Line". This is a large steel tviaduct that diverted from the corridor main at Zoo Tower and returned to the corridor, I believe at Arsenal.
Curt
Mike,
after the Penn Central, except for local drills out of Oak Island or County, Conrail did not run freights on the ex-PRR mainline (NEC) in NJ. They had the LV line to use out of O.I.
Thanks for the info! I am looking now at Philly on the map...what CSX trains would actually use the high-line when the Philly sub crosses the river...goes under the art museum and off towards Trenton? Maybe double stacks? Does Philly pose any CSX double stack clearance issues?
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