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west point wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 1:22 am Until all the PRR style CAT is replaced these incidents will continue to happen. The PRR style has all tracks CAT supported by a single cross wire between support poles outside the tracks.

They should already have started building them last year as we need them next year because the 2000/3000 series are too old and need to be retired by 2024. The 3000s seemed to be the backbone of WMATA for years and even outlasted newer cars. The new 8000 series, in the recent prototype sample, rese...

Of course there are signs that read "riding between cars prohibited" and "do not stand in the vestibule".

Makes sense, but on crush load NJT trains, often riders end up doing such.

Given typical delays in new construction and extensions nowadays, 2025 seems reasonable.

Thinking more along the lines of UP Express.

The very first Silverliner IV from '73.

Not yet. The first cars should still be at Plattsburgh nearing completion.

They're pretty much incompatible with the Exo fleet, and on top of everything else, there were a host of defects still to be dealt with. What differences are their between the SEPTA and EXO cars and how significant are these variations? I'd recommend SEPTA wait and see with ConnDOT's Alstom single ...

If anything, the two pilot cars already completed, might best be delivered to EXO/AMT and join their CRRC fleet.

Otherwise they would be orphans.

Good grief. MBTA should be next.

Streetview: former NYC freight station

The New York Transit Museum might be interested in featuring your book in store (at Grand Central and online) and might even host a lecture or book talk on the topic.

And Mountain Avenue in Montclair on NJT is a private home.

lensovet wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:36 pm NJT/NJDOT owns a good amount of its non-NEC trackage.

Small fry compared to EL and NJT which ran the Comet I fleet with open doors. An episode of Unsolved Mysteries in the late 80s mentions a commuter who accidentally drowned in the Passaic River through an open door in the vestibule as he was about to get off at Newark Broad Street.