Penn State History

I'm headed that way in about a month for a fraternity conference.  That sure is a big school.  I went to Worcester Polytechnic Institute.  About the same time period as the Penn State trains, WPI had their own trolly car.  It was housed in the electrical engineering building and students would run it out onto the Worcester trolly lines with specialized equipment to conduct electrical expirements along the route.  The building is still there and has been converted to classrooms and lecture halls, but they have the old wall panels of knife switches and guages (looks straight out of frankenstien) and some great pictures of the car inside the building.  I should get some pictures of the car and see what it would take to get a custom model painted.  I'll try to to take some pictures next time i'm on campus, you can still tell where the doors were and the grade down to the road.

Thanks for the link. This is a very interesting piece since I am an alumni at PSU and a part of the railroad club there.

Yes, thanks for the informative link with video.  The Lemont station shown at the 0:36 mark of the video was also the home of the wonderful Forster's Trains & Toys shop that recently closed after 25 years of business.

I find it ironically funny that PSU replaced the original BCRR-PSU station at College & Fraser (a line that continued on for at least another mile or two) with the 2 block long Hammond Building - a building that you can not walk directly from one end to the other without having to go outside or up or down 2 floors.  Though, maybe the Hammond design was a homage to railroads.  "End of the line, all passengers must disembark and go to the next platform to change trains to get to your destination.  Thank you."