>It's been a long time since I lived near [Atlantic City], but I have vivid >memories before the casinos of the city being a barren, deserted, >crime-infested wasteland where no one ventured. Gambling was >legalized on the promise of urban renewal and economic revival. I >think the promise was never met. You are correct. I went there are few times for the SJCC in the 1970s and it was a dump. It's still a dump. >30th Street is a magnificent station, although significant parts of >it have been sealed off since the '70s. There used to be a cool >small train line from Philadelphia to the Jersey Shore: the >Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Line. It also went to Cape May Court >House, Cape May, and Wildwood. The train still goes from Philadelphia to Atlantic City 12 times a day, but it's been a long time since it's gone to Cape May.