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Re: All Aboard for Allentown - Track Four
Author: Freericks
Date: 12-18-2009 - 08:28

Tom McCann Wrote:
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> Speaking of rail service to Allentown, SEPTA
> briefly experimented with Allentown service in the
> late 1970s, before shutting down its
> non-electrified (RDC) trains in 1981.
>
> The agency extended several of its
> Philadelphia-Lansdale-Bethlehem RDC runs west
> along the Conrail, ex-Lehigh Valley main into a
> temporary platform on the edge of downtown
> Allentown, near East Penn Junction (where the RDG
> East Penn Branch intersected the LV before
> crossing the Lehigh River into Allentown Yard). I
> forget how long the extension lasted, but it was a
> good try.


I never knew that... I do remember the RDCs at Bethlehem in the late 1970s. Really sorry I never took a ride on that line.

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  All Aboard for Allentown - Track Four Freericks 12-16-2009 - 19:14
  Re: All Aboard for Allentown - Track Four Tom McCann 12-16-2009 - 22:20
  Re: All Aboard for Allentown - Track Four Tom McCann 12-18-2009 - 00:25
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