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Yunno, in 1986, if we'd had put a turtle on the ROW in Port Morris and told him to head West, he'd have made the 26 mile journey to the Delaware long before now....

bleet wrote:NJT has started planning for moving the interlocking, but doesn't mention the pocket track. http://www.njtransit.com/tm/tm_servlet" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. ... ojectId=61 This tells us nothing new or enlightening. I can see redoing the interlocking on th...

Sub - I know that on the short Montclair Branch service was very much more frequent as late as 1960, and that by 1980, it was down to five trains in the morning, no more than seven in the afternoon/evening, no mid-day or night service, and no weekend service. Naturally, with so few trains, there wer...

brain - The Garden State Parkway is usually a complete quagmire on all weekends from mid day, to evening. I know because I am a regular at Six Flags Great Adventure and that was the route I used to take to get there. I found a different route that is much better which I use now. That still takes 2.5...

Walter - I am far from a computer/internet expert but I just did a standard search for 'The Erie Limited' and this link immediately popped-up.... http://www.trainweb.org/fredatsf/erie-limited.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I've found I have better success digging on my ...

So nobody got a photo of what I heard was a pretty banged-up train that hit a fallen tree trunk ? Apparantly it had to sit at Denville for a spell.

FYI the town has a festival Saturday to celebrate. There's gonna be an attempt to set a Guinness record for the largest number of people all blowing train whistles ( hand held ! ) on the platform @11:15am. Model train set-up and apparantly a 'Bar Car' ( their term - not mine ) serving beer. Dunno wh...

SJ -

People around other lines are probably laughing at us.

Thanks....who are the major clients between Croxton and Campbell Hall ?

I always questioned why the ERIE had the 2 routes to begin with. Pretty rural back in the day and a long ride to JC or Hoboken. I don't know the primary factors that effected the decision to favor one line over the other but guessing it was more about moving freight trains than moving money losing p...

My son ( we're native NJers ) relocated to Fullerton ( SE from LA near Disney ) last Fall and is a buff. He tells me Fullerton station is a popular spot - and VERY active - for watching Amtrak, commuter and about dozen big freights DAILY. 3-track ROW with several sidings within a mile in either dire...

Pardon the interuption but not too familiar with HO-7....

Where does it run to/from and on what schedule ? Presume it's home base is Suffern, yes ? Didn't realize it runs with such big 6-axle units.

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Indeed, great job Scot and thanks for the update !

What's the deal with the SD70's....OOS or stored serviceable ?

Dutch - and it will probably be double that amount de to inflation and PTC requirement. Counting Roseville tunnel, and the 2 huge bridges plus all that goes into ROW prep, culverts, grade cossings, signaling, ribbon rail, ties and stone ballast....my conservative guess would be somewhere north of $2...

tj -

Historic Aerials shows the one-time existance of a Y here on the NW side of the spur. Obviously was used to turn the steam engines around seen in NY&LB'as great photo above. You can still make out the Y outline on Google maps imagery in 2014.