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- Subject: Re: historical question
- Message-ID: <16B5EB726.M00209@MBVM.Mitre.Org>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 18:01:24 GMT
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- In article <38723@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
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- >
- >Yes, I have a Philadelphia NHRS newletter that has a picture of one of
- >the Budd/Michelin cars on the branch that runs by my house. It's pretty
- >strange looking. I wonder how much of it was "european design"?
- >
- What branch is this, please? I was wondering where they ran.
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- >Thinking about it, did the Pennsy every buy into the RDC cars? They kept
- >their 1920/1930 era doodlebugs up till the abandonment of most of
- >the branch line passenger service. I know they eventually did for the
- >shared Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore lines.
- >
- No, they never owned an RDC except for the PRSL. I remember doodlebugs
- on Trenton - Long Branch, Trenton - Bordentown - Camden, and Camden -
- Pemberton lines, but I know they ran on most every branck line in the system. r
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