I was born in Olney in 1956, but we emigrated to South Jersey in 1962. That's the Olney Station I rode to from RDG Terminal to visit my grandmother (RIP) in the early 1970s. Logan and Crescentville stations are long gone, and Olney Station is very different.
This video is great. It's showing the old stations on the line. I grew up in Olney and took the train to Center City and back. This is the first time that I was able to see where the freight line goes from Lawndale to 30th Street.
Thanks for posting. this. It was good to see the New York Short line when both tracks were electrified from Newtown Jct. to Cheltenham. Trains going to Fox Chase and Newtown often passed just below Cheltenham where they had these two tracks for passenger trains.
You this video is old when the guys are talking about the “Parkesburg Line” instead of the “Thorndale Line” and there’s speculation about Ivy Ridge being reconnected
This video is one of the best ones I've seen on utube. Thank you for posting it. Seeing the Logan Station, brings back wonderful memories, I used to take the train from Logan Station to Reading terminal regularly. I used to take the the Newton train to Holland to visit my cousins. Does anyone know who the line used to belong to the Reading, or penn central, at the location where the train diverge to the right to continue on to the zoo, because the Reading tracks go to the left and over the Schuylkill river.
The Junction Railroad between Belmont and Zoo was originally built in the 1860's and split between the Reading, Pennsylvania, and PW&B, with the PRR gaining full control in 1899.
During Railworks in 1992, the SEPTA Main was shut down for rebuilding from Wayne Junction to Market East from April to October. While most lines still operated to Fern Rock, the Fox Chase Line was shut down. For the last two months of the shutdown, SEPTA ran the Fox Chase Special twice in the morning and evening. For the 1993 shutdown, they ran diesels from Doylestown and West Trenton, but not Fox Chase. These were the last regularly scheduled diesel passenger trains SEPTA ran.
The banter even mentioned bringing back the Newtown line. Here we are, 30 years later, and half of the Newtown line is a rail trail. The other half is abandoned and overgrown.
