07-23-2010, 07:57 PM
The problem is that they cut all the lines though under Center City so the PRR trains and the RDG trains all are inter-married and what was a Foxchase to Reading Terminal Local now goes right through the bowels of the city to PRR's Suburban Station ond comes out the other side as the Paoli Local!
But the renaming using numbers happened before the "Underground" with its station stops such as "The Galleria Shopping Center" were introduced, and so once the Thru-the-City routing was implemented, it got even more confusing as trains then had to change numbers somewhere under Center City and nobody knew which train to get on without asking a trainman or the conductor (or if you were like me ... the "motorman.")
I'm glad they are using the town names again!
But the renaming using numbers happened before the "Underground" with its station stops such as "The Galleria Shopping Center" were introduced, and so once the Thru-the-City routing was implemented, it got even more confusing as trains then had to change numbers somewhere under Center City and nobody knew which train to get on without asking a trainman or the conductor (or if you were like me ... the "motorman.")
I'm glad they are using the town names again!
biL
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Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln