Transport: Bustleton Special

Last week for more than two hours a Pennsylvania Railroad train was "lost" near Philadelphia.

The train was a special from Atlantic City to Philadelphia, with three cars attached for Bustleton. This suburb, 17 miles from Philadelphia, is on a short spur off the New York-Philadelphia mainline. Bustleton-bound were 20 delegates returning from the 51st triennial General Convention of the Episcopal Church at Atlantic City. At Philadelphia their cars were attached to a switch engine, shuttled off to Bustleton. From the dispatcher at Holmesburg Junction, 13 miles out, went word that the...

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