The demise of the steam locomotive and consequent curtailment of 'company coal' purchases resulted in a vast reduction in business along the NYC's lines in Pennsylvania. The same diesel electric locomotives which caused this decline contributed…
The GP-7 on the Beech Creek local strains past YA tower on the upgrade to Jersey Shore, with a pickup of coal weighed at Avis constituting nearly all of the 30-car train. This train, now eliminated, ran out of Newberry Junction terminal near…