mile posts on N.S.

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Yes, but PRR trains carried no passengers east of Penn Station.  One could say the PRR went to the eastern tip of Long Island, since it owned the LIRR.  Distances on the PRR mainlines to Chicago and St. Louis were measured from the old Broad Street Station, across from Philadelphia's City Hall, even after the station was demolished in 1952 (replaced by 30th Street station in 1933, which Amtrak uses). 

J. Kelling, Maryland 


>>> <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> 11/01/05 11:30PM >>>

But didn't Pennsy go even farther east - to Sunnyside Yard?

EdKing
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  Interesting discussion about the location of 'Milepost Zero' on the N & W.  At least one suggestion that it was at the end of the original coal pier; but more likely at the Norfolk pass. station.  Reminds me of a similar question about MP zero on the former PRR.  Obvious answer - Penn Station in NYC.  Actual answer - at end of track in Jersey City's Exchange Place PRR passenger terminal, which was the eastern 'end of the line' before the RR was extended into NYC.  I don't know how the extension from NJ meadows into NY was marked; maybe as a branch from west to east ?

  Jerome Crosson 
   
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  Wasn't milepost 0 on the N&W located at the seaward end of old Coal Pier #1?

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    Don,

    There is no all-encompassing milepost zero for NS. The mileposts from the predecessor lines are used. The N&W main line from Norfolk to Columbus was numbered in miles from Norfolk. But other routes were numbered from other points of origin. The Shenandoah Division continues to be numbered in miles from Hagerstown, MD. The Winston-Salem District is numbered in miles from Roanoke.

    Ron Davis 

    At 03:16 AM 10/30/2005, you wrote:

      What are the mileposts for NS between Justice-Gilbert and Williamson.  Where is milepost #1 on NS and where is the ending milepost.   
      Don Mills
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