The Southern Tier Conrail on the Erie Lackawanna
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.This Conrail line, the former EL mainline, became known as “The Southern Tier”.
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This Conrail line, the former EL mainline, became known as “The Southern Tier”.
Coal was discovered on Cape Breton, in Nova Scotia, in the 1800s. To haul their product, the coal companies constructed a rail line to the Port of Sydney.
Rare film footage of the railroads of New England. Shot by Eugene Livernois beginning in the 1930s!
Until the late sixties, the New Haven Railroad was the dominant force in Southern Connecticut. Then things began to diversify when Penn Central, Amtrak and then Conrail took charge. And then the railroad scene changed even more!
As a part of the 1948 Chicago Railroad Fair, there was a twice-daily pageant based on the history of American transportation called Wheels-a-Rolling. Significant historic events were related with a railroad background. Hundreds of actors participated and many of these were steam powered!
When the railroad-building craze hit the US in the 1830’s, the political and commercial interests in Boston sought to access the vast market potential in the burgeoning west. A rail charter was granted to build a line west from Boston to the New York line.
Boston and Albany tracks still see freight trains today – but now those trains say CSX on the side. Before CSX, before Conrail, there was Penn Central.
The ‘Ole Weak and Weary came to be in 1916, operating from Winchester to Gore, Virginia, and beyond.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway had just added “and Pacific” to its name by crossing the Continental Divide, the Bitterroots and the Cascades to reach the Puget Sound. And now the railroad was going to take on electrification!
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