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As someone who lives about halfway between the Hackettstown station and the proposed Andover station, I use NJT about once a month for business trips into NYC or connecting there to Amtrak or the LIRR. If I am going for a single meeting then I try to get to Dover or Denville because you really can't...

Anything new? Several local posters to a Facebook group I belong to claim that construction work has resumed on the extension to Andover.

Ever wonder about how the Jersey's Central's purchase of portions of the Lehigh & New England came about? We found a copy of a book published in April of 1960 that was originally released as a report to the Central Railroad of New Jersey by the consulting engineering firm of Coverdale & Colp...

Welcome to the small band of HBS fans! If you have not already been there, visit the Hoboken Shore Railroad home page: http://hbs.railfan.net/ As to things to see today: - There was a set of tracks that ran down the alley between 14th and 15th Streets, roughly from Hudson Street all the way over to ...

When I worked on the M-1 in the late 1980's we found a metal block with a tension rod that rubbed on the wheel treads. My understanding was this was to help improve conductivity to trip the signals.

Anthracite for the New York City area was big business, but the NYS&W got into it too late in the game. I disagree. The NYS&W was just in time. It's Wilkes Barre & Eastern, Susquehanna Connecting, and several isolated branches were fairly straight forward with out the branches and other...

Saturday's trip is now sold out.

This morning shows only 2 tickets left for Saturday and greater than 10 tickets left for Sunday.

I understand that one or more of the anti-rail, anti-crude oil train groups is planning some kind of protest trackside in Dumont - be sure to wave to them from the train!

Coffee has always played an important role in dining car operations. Most railroads had special roasts produced especially for them as a distinguishing feature of the dining car meal. Most railroads went to more generic blends by the 1960's. The blends varied wildly. The New Haven had a very mild, s...

And if you want to do something "railroad", you can visit the Maine Narrow Gauge Museum:
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You can easily do the entire museum in an hour.

Bumping up again. In addition, any photos of the interior of a LV dining car?

Thanks. I will have to look for the ROW when I am up there next year.

Thanks! Any idea what they used for power? Or did the MEC operate it?