Middletown & New Jersey Railroad: News, Operations, Updates

there is a you tube video of the 2173 lettered for M&NJ heading out of Mt. Vernon, Illinois

Video by trainboylogan productions. with 2175 behind three gondolas.
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I'M WRONG..... blame it on my age.... it's the 2175, not 2173................

delivered to Campbell Hall today..... just saw pictures......

Out working already. Passingthe staion at Campbell Hall.
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Someone posted a pic of the 2174 on MNJ Hist. Society's facebook page out in Ohio getting shipped a couple days ago. Expect to see it in CH in the near future.

Are other units being removed from CH?

A gentleman on that FB page, who sounds like an MNJ employee and does mechanical work on the loco's, mentioned 1800 will be staying put, as well as the 773 which is "receiving upgrades" (didn't mention details about the upgrades). Also mentioned the new geeps are part of ESPN's plans to phase out the remaining GE's... which I pretty much figured.

Looks like MNJ is picking up some more trackage, leased from NS.
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*edit: ALSO, looks like they're getting trackage rights all the way to Port Jervis. What does this mean for the NS Interchange? Will they interchange with NYSW at port jervis? 30 miles of rights is a pretty big expansion for MNJ.

This is great news. Would the MNJ need to acquire additional motive power?

Oops, I forgot to congratulate them.

There was nothing listed about additional interchange points. I would think the additional trackage rights would help them if there are any additional businesses that come online in the future. I doubt they'll really be going west of Middletown anytime soon.

One big plus with all this is I imagine MNJ will now be able to bring CSX/NYSW traffic to Middletown portion customers when they were not able to before, creating opporitunity for more business on that end. On top of that, they will be gaining the current NS customers between Middletown and Campbell Hall. I don't see the MNJ going to Port Jervis under normal circumstances.... I believe PJ is just the farthest point west of the territory they are agreeing to take over from NS. In a nutshell, this sounds like all good stuff for the M&NJ.

The practical aspect of this is that M&NJ will probably operate all its service out of Campbell Hall instead of having one engine stationed in Middletown as is done now. NS will probably never go west of CH now. I believe that M&NJ now has its engines equipped with PTC.

bk77 wrote:One big plus with all this is I imagine MNJ will now be able to bring CSX/NYSW traffic to Middletown portion customers when they were not able to before, creating opporitunity for more business on that end. ...

In the earlier linked document, which I don't have in front of me, I recall reading a sentence like "traffic not being interchanged with NS will be subject to a surcharge (presumably to be paid to NS)", IIRC. I don't remember if that applied to all MNJ traffic to/from territory that was formerly handled by NS, or just some piece of it.

So my point is there might not be CSX/NYSW interchange for Middletown, depending on the surcharge.
JS