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New York Times reports a mass casualty incident in Brooklyn Subway

 by n2cbo ¦  Tue Apr 12, 2022 12:38 pm ¦  Forum: NYCT MTA Subway, PATH and SIRT ¦  Topic: New York Times reports a mass casualty incident in Brooklyn Subway ¦  Replies: 11 ¦  Views: 1314

16 People Are Injured, Including 10 Shot, in Attack on Brooklyn Subway Five of the victims were in critical condition after a man in a worker’s vest put on a gas mask, opened a canister that filled a subway car with smoke, and then opened fire, the police said. I'm not sure which line this was on as...

Re: Fifty Years of Amtrak: Your best memories

 by n2cbo ¦  Mon Oct 18, 2021 10:11 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Fifty Years of Amtrak: Your best memories ¦  Replies: 43 ¦  Views: 9009

My best memory was back when I was in college. During one of our winter breaks, my girlfriend (at the time) and I went to Montreal from New York to see a concert (Both of us were classical music students). When we were about to leave Montreal, we had a GREAT idea. Amtrak had a thru sleeper from Mont...

Re: Heartland Flyer Mishap

 by n2cbo ¦  Mon Oct 18, 2021 9:44 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Amtrak Heartland Flyer Discussion and Possible Extension ¦  Replies: 297 ¦  Views: 53198

A lot of these can be prevented IF the driver reads the signs. That being said, I've been told that some trucking companies (and truck manufacturers have been experimenting with adding data for things like this (A RR Xing that will not have clearance for a "low Boy") to GPS driven mapping ...

Re: Amtrak 50th Anniversary (May 1, 1971) memories: The first five years...

 by n2cbo ¦  Thu Apr 01, 2021 11:13 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Amtrak 50th Anniversary (May 1, 1971) memories: The first five years... ¦  Replies: 21 ¦  Views: 3701

My first ride on Amtrak was in June of 1971 when I graduated from the 8th grade (Catholic School). I got to ride from Washington Union Station (I had relatives who lived in Southern Maryland who came to NJ to visit with us, and they drove me to Union Station) to the brand new station in Iselin, NJ (...

https://youtu.be/Xl_6ktBXnsk?t=130 In watching this video from circa. 2000, there is a catenary wire running from Hunter Interlocking all the way to CP NK on the Lehigh Line. I know that an engine change was done there in the days of Lehigh Valley Passenger service, but why is it still there today? ...

Re: Cardinal discussion

 by n2cbo ¦  Thu Mar 04, 2021 9:20 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Cardinal discussion ¦  Replies: 928 ¦  Views: 179435

In a "perfect" world, I would like to see in addition to all of the aforementioned routes (NYC-CHI). A resurrected Phoebe Snow running through the Del Water Gap, East Stroudsburg, the Poconos, Scranton, Binghamton, and all of those college towns that its namesake served on the EL. Would it...

Re: If you could restore a defunct Amtrak route

 by n2cbo ¦  Tue Feb 02, 2021 10:39 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: If you could restore a defunct Amtrak route ¦  Replies: 379 ¦  Views: 70422

Backshophoss wrote: Tue Feb 02, 2021 3:04 am
and a "Honey Wagon" to handle restroom waste material.
Things were so much simpler when the toilets just dumped to the ballast... 8^)

Re: Amtrak Gateway Tunnels

 by n2cbo ¦  Tue Oct 20, 2020 1:02 pm ¦  Forum: New York City Area Wide Rail Transit Issues (Cross-Agency) ¦  Topic: Amtrak Gateway Tunnels ¦  Replies: 2328 ¦  Views: 526953

Prepare the Emergency Backup Pontoon Railroad Bridge for when the tunnels fail, with tugboats to open & close the shipping channel. Or reroute everything via the PATH subway tunnels and reconstruct them to have connections to Hoboken and NYP. :P I'm glad you put a smiley at the end of your post...

Re: Northeast Regional 188 - Accident In Philadelphia

 by n2cbo ¦  Sat May 16, 2020 4:47 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Northeast Regional 188 - Accident In Philadelphia ¦  Replies: 1522 ¦  Views: 479730

Five years removed... and we're still dealing with this. Right, lets look back... and for the most definite record we have on hand, lets pull the NTSB report on the accident . Now my read is this: Kids throw or drop rocks off the Diamond Street Bridge around 9pm onto an inbound SEPTA train from Tre...

Re: Northeast Regional 188 - Accident In Philadelphia

 by n2cbo ¦  Sat May 16, 2020 1:59 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Northeast Regional 188 - Accident In Philadelphia ¦  Replies: 1522 ¦  Views: 479730

The engineer to possibly face charges yet again for a 3rd time: The Amtrak engineer who operated a train that derailed in 2015 in Philadelphia, killing eight people, can be tried criminally for the deaths and injuries, a Superior Court judge said Thursday. The decision came just days after the May ...

Re: Lackawanna Cutoff Passenger Service Restoration

 by n2cbo ¦  Mon Mar 09, 2020 1:53 pm ¦  Forum: New Jersey Transit NJT Rail and Light Rail LRT ¦  Topic: Lackawanna Cutoff Passenger Service Restoration ¦  Replies: 6078 ¦  Views: 1521285

There are 2 NJDEP wetlands permits that have not been issued as of Feb. 13, as DEP responded to an OPRA request. Congressman Gottheimer has not taken a position on whether the LC should be completed. That’s not very encouraging. Which permits are you speaking of? I thought all of the necessary perm...

Re: Lackawanna Cutoff Passenger Service Restoration

 by n2cbo ¦  Sat Mar 07, 2020 9:29 pm ¦  Forum: New Jersey Transit NJT Rail and Light Rail LRT ¦  Topic: Lackawanna Cutoff Passenger Service Restoration ¦  Replies: 6078 ¦  Views: 1521285

JoeG wrote: Sat Mar 07, 2020 8:07 pm I guess n2cbo has been smoking those cigarettes not yet legal for recreational use in PA.
I DID say that it had a snowball's chance in hell didn't I... 8^)

Re: Lackawanna Cutoff Passenger Service Restoration

 by n2cbo ¦  Sat Mar 07, 2020 7:28 pm ¦  Forum: New Jersey Transit NJT Rail and Light Rail LRT ¦  Topic: Lackawanna Cutoff Passenger Service Restoration ¦  Replies: 6078 ¦  Views: 1521285

Running a connecting bus from Scranton to the East Stroudsburg Train Station would be more practical than running the train all the way to Scranton. In little or no traffic from East Stroudsburg to Scranton, even making the same stops that the train would make, the bus trip would probably take an h...

Re: Lackawanna Cutoff Passenger Service Restoration

 by n2cbo ¦  Sat Mar 07, 2020 4:02 pm ¦  Forum: New Jersey Transit NJT Rail and Light Rail LRT ¦  Topic: Lackawanna Cutoff Passenger Service Restoration ¦  Replies: 6078 ¦  Views: 1521285

Looks like I'm still dead-horse beating. The lower cost of the latest estimate is because it does not include some essential items. I haven't seen any proposals where the train beats Martz. Talgos are another non-starter. They won't fit existing high level platforms, they are incompatible with NJT'...

Re: Lackawanna Cutoff Passenger Service Restoration

 by n2cbo ¦  Sun Mar 01, 2020 5:39 pm ¦  Forum: New Jersey Transit NJT Rail and Light Rail LRT ¦  Topic: Lackawanna Cutoff Passenger Service Restoration ¦  Replies: 6078 ¦  Views: 1521285

The "Snow" has passed on to RR history,,Amtrak will NEVER run service out of Hoboken, Just get the rails to Andover and then STOP!!! PA is anti mass transit GIVE UP on Scranton,please!!!!!! It would NOT have to run from Hoboken. It could run out of Penn, just like all the other Midtown Di...

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