Jersey_Mike wrote:In the future what would be a better storage plan if the MMC and Hoboken are increasingly prone to flooding? If Yard capacity is insufficient elsewhere one obvious choice would be the center track on the M&E trunk line. It's close to Hoboken and the MMC, yet wouldn't tie up service on the outer tracks. For Newark Division trainsets NJT could use either the Metutchen or Linden freight yards, the latter now generally empty after the GM plant closure.
NJT stored most Morrisville sets on the Coast Line inbewteen Graw and Wood - that was where they stored the Bay Head trains last year. Remember, there was a LOT of equipment trapped in MV last year for a long time when the NEC was flooded/washed out at Trenton.
County was fine, as far as I know, MV stuff to the Coast Line, Long Branch was fine, BH to the MMC, which seemed like a good idea, so those sets could be used on Hoboken division or Raritan Line if the Coast Line was to have some troubles...which it did. But the MMC had its own, unexpected problems, so that turned into not such a great idea. I think ACL stuff was stored out by Wins, but im not certain. I thought i saw somewhere that RVL stuff was split up, with some staying in Raritan, others going to Hudson Yard. That would explain why the BH trains had to go to the MMC. But im not sure on any of this, I didn't see any personally, just what I was told and saw in the plans before the storm.
