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Re: Abandoned railroad track from Long Branch to Eatontown

 by OportRailfan ¦  Tue Mar 19, 2024 2:24 pm ¦  Forum: New Jersey Railfan ¦  Topic: Abandoned railroad track from Long Branch to Eatontown ¦  Replies: 40 ¦  Views: 22039

Somewhere....I have slides of the last train from Fort Monmouth to Branchport, a single CNJ RS3 sent to pull the coaches that were used as military housing.... a LONG TIME AGO....If I can find them and digitize them, I will post. This is the article I usually recall regarding that: https://www.nyti...

lensovet wrote: Thu Feb 01, 2024 12:34 am As expected, due to questions and amendments being issued, the updated submission deadline is now April 25 of this year.
You can sense the real urgency to get this project off the ground.

Re: Delaware and Raritan River Railroad-General Discussion

 by OportRailfan ¦  Tue Jan 30, 2024 7:59 am ¦  Forum: New Jersey Railfan ¦  Topic: Delaware and Raritan River Railroad-General Discussion ¦  Replies: 4781 ¦  Views: 652947

To the person who claims to work for the C&D, what is your position? And if you are an employee, you're in violation NORAC rule L-2. And you're subject to discipline. And just to remind everyone, C&D management frequents both Facebook and Railroad.net and that is why no trespassing signs ar...

Re: Delaware and Raritan River Railroad-General Discussion

 by OportRailfan ¦  Tue Jan 09, 2024 4:30 pm ¦  Forum: New Jersey Railfan ¦  Topic: Delaware and Raritan River Railroad-General Discussion ¦  Replies: 4781 ¦  Views: 652947

Bracdude181 wrote: Tue Jan 09, 2024 2:06 pm Bridge damage. Ouch!Image

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That's an expensive repair to re-seat/re-align the bridge

Re: Dock Bridge - Passaic River

 by OportRailfan ¦  Wed Nov 29, 2023 3:21 pm ¦  Forum: New York City Area Wide Rail Transit Issues (Cross-Agency) ¦  Topic: Dock Bridge - Passaic River ¦  Replies: 53 ¦  Views: 10765

What sort of marine traffic goes through here and how often? Must not be anything big if current levels allow for the bridge to be locked in place. Practically nothing? We opened it for something in the winter of 2019(?) after the interlocking was remoted to PSCC in late 2017. Hell, PATH didn't eve...

Re: Delaware and Raritan River Railroad-General Discussion

 by OportRailfan ¦  Wed Sep 13, 2023 3:23 pm ¦  Forum: New Jersey Railfan ¦  Topic: Delaware and Raritan River Railroad-General Discussion ¦  Replies: 4781 ¦  Views: 652947

CR7876 wrote: Wed Sep 13, 2023 11:43 am Image
That's an unconventional arrangement...

Re: Delaware and Raritan River Railroad-General Discussion

 by OportRailfan ¦  Wed Sep 13, 2023 10:42 am ¦  Forum: New Jersey Railfan ¦  Topic: Delaware and Raritan River Railroad-General Discussion ¦  Replies: 4781 ¦  Views: 652947

CharlieL wrote: Wed Sep 13, 2023 5:23 am I noticed on some of the posts mounted about half way up there is some kind of rectangle that looks like a LED display, it may be some kind of warning device. I'll need to look closer.
"RED SIGNAL AHEAD" ?

Re: Delaware and Raritan River Railroad-General Discussion

 by OportRailfan ¦  Thu Aug 31, 2023 11:46 am ¦  Forum: New Jersey Railfan ¦  Topic: Delaware and Raritan River Railroad-General Discussion ¦  Replies: 4781 ¦  Views: 652947

Just as a note of info..to the best of my knowledge.... The "ballast Hopper" is an MOW 4 wheel push car, moved with a tow bar to any self propelled MOW critter. It is not a standard railroad ballast hopper. They are also spreading ballast with a highrail dumptruck The exact same equipment...

Re: Delaware and Raritan River Railroad-General Discussion

 by OportRailfan ¦  Sun Aug 13, 2023 4:31 pm ¦  Forum: New Jersey Railfan ¦  Topic: Delaware and Raritan River Railroad-General Discussion ¦  Replies: 4781 ¦  Views: 652947

So are they not gonna use the bridge that’s there? I will say that bridge is questionable. I can see them replacing the tracks though. Last train on that portion was in 2008 with NS 3026 and 8 cars and at that time it was bad enough that they had to absolutely crawl over that stretch. Do you have a...

Re: Delaware and Raritan River Railroad-General Discussion

 by OportRailfan ¦  Wed Jul 26, 2023 11:04 am ¦  Forum: New Jersey Railfan ¦  Topic: Delaware and Raritan River Railroad-General Discussion ¦  Replies: 4781 ¦  Views: 652947

I’ve already called before and every time the cops do nothing. I wasn’t out there, but one of my guys saw it and told me about it. Call railroad police (Conrail/NS) and document it. Video it or get photos of them vandalizing/damaging railroad property/equipment. There's gotta be rail legislation so...

Re: MOM Rail Service

 by OportRailfan ¦  Thu Jul 20, 2023 8:32 am ¦  Forum: New Jersey Transit NJT Rail and Light Rail LRT ¦  Topic: MOM Rail Service ¦  Replies: 1720 ¦  Views: 401454

What about that one guys 47-minute wait at New Brunswick. @Cruiser939 would have something to say about that.

Re: Delaware and Raritan River Railroad-General Discussion

 by OportRailfan ¦  Thu Jul 06, 2023 11:37 am ¦  Forum: New Jersey Railfan ¦  Topic: Delaware and Raritan River Railroad-General Discussion ¦  Replies: 4781 ¦  Views: 652947

Two more things before I forget. 1. The Jewish security firm was not seen today. 2. Sycamore Ave is having issues now too. Lights come on only seconds before the train crosses. Two people stopped abruptly but then floored it across. 3 seconds later and they would’ve been hit. Poor shunting. Rust bu...

Re: Existing Catenary Above PATH

 by OportRailfan ¦  Tue Jun 27, 2023 1:18 pm ¦  Forum: NYCT MTA Subway, PATH and SIRT ¦  Topic: Existing Catenary Above PATH ¦  Replies: 46 ¦  Views: 21341

I have to correct myself as in heading to NJ I was able to get a seat by the window. The cat wires ARE STILL IN PLACE over the Newark bound track from the junction I described earlier to a point just east of the Harrison station. Whether they are energized, I do not know. If they are still overhead...

Re: Delaware and Raritan River Railroad-General Discussion

 by OportRailfan ¦  Mon Jun 19, 2023 1:29 pm ¦  Forum: New Jersey Railfan ¦  Topic: Delaware and Raritan River Railroad-General Discussion ¦  Replies: 4781 ¦  Views: 652947

As to why it’s not in the gauge, it seems like it’s meant more to mark the space the train takes up outside the gauge, implying that you should stay at least that far back. Hopefully it also takes dragging equipment into account. Most railroads have a definition for "fouling" the track. M...

Re: Delaware and Raritan River Railroad-General Discussion

 by OportRailfan ¦  Mon Jun 19, 2023 1:26 pm ¦  Forum: New Jersey Railfan ¦  Topic: Delaware and Raritan River Railroad-General Discussion ¦  Replies: 4781 ¦  Views: 652947

Excuse me for being ignorant of this. But what is #10 turnout? A turnout (switch diverging from a straight track) good for movements at 15/20mph, that has 1' of lateral movement for every 10' of train movement through the turnout. You'll find a turnout leading into a siding. Crossovers take you fro...

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