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Truck hunting goes all the way back to the John Bull, PRR's P5, early Virginian (later CR's problem) E-33 and GE's E-60 as noted earlier all suffered from it. There was an interesting, albeit inconclusive, study back in the 1970's trying to outline the math for the geometry of flanged wheel on curre...

Moynihan will be what it always was - a useless appendage.

As for MSG, I lived painfully through the demolition of the original station and I pray that I live long enough to see the abomination that squats on its remains blown to smithereens (along with its equally abominable basketball team).

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I just moved to Monroe near Applegarth Rd. Yesterday, I heard a job signaling for a crossing (thought I saw an "X" block on the track north of the Applegarth crossing and that nothing was moving to or from Brown's from Monroe). Thought I read earlier in the thread that the track was severe...

Avelia made a lot of noise crossing the Raritan at New Brunswick. That Euro-horn has got to go.

There's the Raritan River RR running from South Amboy to New Brunswick. It had a branch that crossed Ryders Lane and the Turnpike (still there by Home Depot) in East Brunswick and the main line that ran into New Brunswick, crossing under US 1, running alongside the Squibb property parallel to Colleg...

You've got the underused former CNJ spur that runs to the quarry in Bridgewater that could be extended to serve the growing corporate base there. The old LV Perth Amboy branch ROW from Metuchen to South Plainfield could be used to reach an RVL transfer point for travel in either direction. There's t...

All three had access. The Reading shared access with the LV coming down from Bound Brook. If you look closely at the remaining siding paralleling track 4, you can see it wasn’t PRR style trackwork and follow the curve northward toward the LV line. Right after creation of Conrail, a Reading SW1200 (w...

No doubt Rt. 18 in New Brunswick could use some relief. Even when they widened it, DEVCO estimated that by creating 7500 jobs, the new capacity of Rt. 18 would be immediately saturated - and it is. New Brunswick IS a destination - Rutgers, J&J, the county offices and courts - lots of small busin...

The CNJ route was single-tracked and the ROW was so narrow that even passing siding construction was questionable. Of all the NIMBYs, I can appreciate the Jamesburg argument as the route would run in the middle of the main street of town (also a single track segment that could not be widened) that i...

Call it "Death by NIMBY." As the former late mayor of South Brunswick used to say "We'll just run buses up and down US 1 all day." Or the former mayor of Jamesburg: "Those trains will block cross-street access for up to 4 minutes. What happens if an ambulance needs to get by...

And yet, even in the midst of the pandemic, the FAANG (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google) companies are snapping up west side office space. I'm afraid I'll still be stuck on NJT for the foreseeable future. Facebook Leases Large Space At Manhattan’s Farley Building, Signaling Confidence In The...

It's all about the slots. And I don't mean the ones in AC casinos. Until the NEC is a three-track railroad east of SJ (meaning the Portal bridge replacement) and has the new tunnels to PSNY AND new storage/turnaround tracks and platforms, it ain't happening. No place to put those trains. All of the ...

Did they get rid of Stewart Mader already? Or are we going to be getting more "happy talk?"

What would it take to reopen the severed portions of the branch to serve all of those distribution centers down around Monroe? All that rusty rail running right by all of those centers - often within yards. Seems crazy to have all of those trucks jamming the roads when a train could do the job. I'm ...