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#1 KevinKorell

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Posted 28 July 2015 - 10:33 AM

Mainline Media News, 7/28/15:

 

 

History train tours through West Chester

 

 

 

There hasn’t been a commuter rail service to West Chester since SEPTA last ran a train in 1986, but that doesn’t mean residents can’t take an historic journey down the tracks.

Back by popular demand, the West Chester Railroad hosts a history train where people can ride on coaches built in the early 1930s for the Reading Railroad.

Article is here.

 

They don't mention it, but there used to be a few specials that ran through over the still active SEPTA portion into Philadelphia 30th Street Station. I am not sure if they are still physically able to do this.  The gap between the Glen Mills endpoint of the tourist train and SEPTA's revenue service at Elwyn is just 5 miles --- and that gap will get smaller when SEPTA re-extends as far as Wawa.



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