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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by M.W. Hemphill The Pennsy is two different railroads, divided at Pittsburgh. To the east, it's a super-railroad, elevated, realigned, and flattened, only excepting the places where the Pennsy ran out of money first. To the west, it's a much more modest railroad. Crossings at grade are fairly rare east of Pittsburgh, and common as dirt west of Pittsburgh. The traffic of the railroad determined the difference. [/quote] Mark,...since you used the term...could you expand a bit on the criteria used in generic classification of a railroad as a "super railroad"? I've seen it used in the magazine to describe multi-main grade separated corridors, as well as lines that are single mains, with frequent at grade crossings.. And the one time I posed this exact question to this forum, several members advanced opinion, which was just diverse enough collectively, that no hard criteria could be distilled from it.
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