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Re: Re: (rshsdepot) PRR Schuylkill Branch Questions

Thanks, Harry, for your information! My main interest is seeing photos of
the old Pottsville depots, as well as the PRR depot in Reading. I was lucky
to be able to photograph the Outer Depot in Reading before it was torn down,
and remember seeing several of the buildings you mentioned. I appreciate the
update!
Verne Brummel
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Harry J. Tucci Jr. <katahdin_@_ureach.com>
To: Verne and Joan Brummel <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: Re: (rshsdepot) PRR Schuylkill Branch Questions


> I got involved with this line several years ago when I led the
> acquisition of it from the Penn Central for a walking trail.
> Some of the smaller stations still exist north of Reading, such
> as in Lessport, and in Port Clinton the Reading and Northern
> has built a wonderful facility.
>
> In Reading the Locomotive shops and MOW shops are being used as
> storage by a plumbing company.  They are in disarepair and
> probably will not make another 5 years.  Some of the Car Shops
> are still usaed by NS.
>
> In Pottstown the oild train statiopn is now a bank.  In
> Phoenixville the station is a restauraunt.  Both are still in
> good shape.  In Schuylkill Haven there is now a Reading RR
> museuim on the site of the old rail yard.  The St. Clair rail
> yard was developed into a corporate aprk several years back,
> although the coaling docks for where the RR and the Canal met
> still exist in the woods.  The old RR trestle at Landingville
> still stands.  In POttsville the old Freight Statiuon is now a
> surveyor's office.
>
> Vetsiges of this line exist in all the towns if you know where
> to look.
>
> I have ROW maps of the whole line in Schuylkill County and
> would be happy to dig them out and answer any more questions.
>
> Harry J. Tucci Jr.
>
>
>
>
>
> ---- On Sat, 5 May 2001, Verne and Joan Brummel
> (jmb_@_email.msn.com) wrote:
>
> > I would like to add some questions to Frank's list:
> > What were the PRR and Reading depots like in Pottsville, and
> when were
> > they
> > torn down? Also, what was the PRR depot like in Reading,PA?
> > Back in 1976, my friend Gordy Bjoraker and I rode a Reading
> RDC up to
> > Pottsville. Even though several Reading trains still served
> Pottsville
> > at
> > the time, the depot was already gone. Down in Reading,PA, we
> took a tour
> > of
> > the Reading RR's yard and shops, and visited the Franklin St.
> and Outer
> > stations. We stopped at the PRR/Penn Central yard in Reading,
> and found
> > an
> > old railroad structure that appeared to be still used by PC.
> I'm not
> > sure if
> > it was a PRR freight station, or a surviving  portion of the
> old PRR
> > passenger station. Any information on these depots would be
> very much
> > appreciated!
> > LaVerne Brummel, Madison,WI
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <FRANKGARON_@_aol.com>
> > To: <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
> > Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 1:24 PM
> > Subject: (rshsdepot) PRR Schuylkill Branch Questions
> >
> >
> > > Took a Sunday drive last month up to the Pottsville, PA
> area - I had
> > not
> > been up there in years.
> > >
> > > Some questions/comments:
> > >
> > > 1. It looks like they are going to widen Route 61 from the
> south side
> > of
> > Pottsville clear down to Schuylkill Haven to put in a center
> turn lane -
> > and
> > *possibly* build on the PRR ROW. All trees have been cleared,
> and Mount
> > Carbon Yard is now wide open.
> > >
> > > Anybody know if this is the case?
> > >
> > >
> > > 2. When did the coaling tower finally come down in Mount
> Carbon?
> > >
> > >
> > > 3. In Pottsville proper, right next to the Bus Station,
> there is a
> > building that *sort* of looks like it might have been a PRR
> building -
> > maybe
> > frieght or Yard Office.
> > > It's on the west side of the Bus Station. This would have
> been right
> > where
> > the now razed PRr station was.
> > >
> > > Anybody know if it was PRR related?
> > >
> > >
> > > 4. In Schuylkill Haven, my CT1000 shows a PRR/LV
> interchange track at
> > MP
> > 90.2.
> > >
> > > Can anybody help me place this location - nearest steets
> that it would
> > have been near?
> > >
> > >
> > > 5. The ROW just above Saint Clair has a handy dandy Walmart
> Plaza
> > built on
> > it - this is new since last time I was up there.
> > >
> > >
> > > 6. Did PRR use RDG trackage rights all the way from
> Wetherill Jct to
> > Shenandoah, or did they have their own tracks from frackville
> north
> > somehow?
> > >
> > >
> > > 7. Anybody know where the PRR station in Minersville was
> located?
> > >
> > >
> > > 8. Does anybody know the last time the line from Delano Jct
> to Morea
> > was
> > used (I am guessing that LV was the last one to run on this
> line)? It
> > seems
> > to have been railbanked from at least 1984 or so.
> > >
> > >
> > > 9. Has anybody here ever walked the ROW from the Delano
> area thru
> > Morea
> > down to say St. Clair or so? I am interested in doing this
> sometime -
> > but
> > wondering what bridges are out, and if there are trespassing
> concerns at
> > Morea Colliery?
> > >
> > >
> > > 10. In Hazleton proper, they list a PRR freight station at
> MP 122.5 -
> > this
> > interests me because I believe that this trackage was always
> owned by LV
> > (w/PRR having trackage rights).
> > >
> > > Anybody know where this was, streetwise, and what it looked
> like?
> > >
> > >
> > > 11. Did the tracks ever run west of Scotch Valley and
> connect with the
> > line from Sunbury to Wilkes Barre or something? A topo map
> and an NRHS
> > Bulletin that I have infers this, but does not seem to come
> out and say
> > it.
> > >
> > >
> > > 12. Anybody else on the list have a good handle on what
> stuctures are
> > still up north of Norristown? Doesn't seem to be hardly
> anything left -
> > except for
> > > Birdsboro, Mohrsville and Shoemakersville?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Frank
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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