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Not sure what the complaining is about C&D. They succeeded in increasing the track clearance in Phillipsburg, and at a tiny fraction of what the state was looking to spend to do it. They opened up the Washington line to hi cube cars and materially increased business. No outfit is perfect, but ha...

...or no trains per year. NJ Transit is the only likely customer, and they have sourced ballast off of the NYS&W. Somerville Lumber is out of business. Basically NJ Transit wasted over $10 million rehabbing a branch, installing expensive signal upgrades, and building expensive overpasses at Rout...

When the refinery business was much larger in NJ, Conrail ran an all-day switcher moving between North Jersey and South Jersey, switching all the refineries along the way. They ran down the Trenton Sub, not using the old CNJ route. Many of those chemical industries in north NJ are gone. The rail ind...

They aren't loaded with scrap metal. They appear to be loaded with scrap wood and tires. The loads travel between Piscataway and a short line in North Carolina, presumably burned to generate "green" electricity. However, I really don't know for sure which way the loads are going. They coul...

Operationally the new routing is probably much more reliable than having to deal with the draw bridge just east of Oak Island. Moreover, a maintenance problem with the many bridges in Jersey City or the long tunnel would no longer be a major risk.

Yes I guess not everyone is fluent in the language of sarcasm. NJT is terrible for freight rail.

Bracdude I believe you when you say NJT has problems with C&D. NJT has been such a wonderful supporter of freight on NJ passenger lines, why would anyone question their judgement? Look at the thriving freight on the RV Line, the flourishing traffic deriving from the industrial parks on the forme...

Bracdude we don't know what you "mean" by your previous comment but if it relates to the use of junky old engines, that's a well-honed technique of ambitious and undercapitalized short line companies. If the management and crews work hard with what they got, they will be a tremendous impro...

where else would you leave hydraulic fluid, other than on train tracks?

the edgewater tunnel has a very low clearance, my guess was that it was only Plate B. I saw a tank car at an industry in Edgewater some time around 1991, and maybe a cement 2 bay covered hopper around then as well. The tunnel floor was badly flooded back then and I couldn't see safe service through ...

Hopefully the post COVID world will allow people to work much closer to, or at, home, so we can avoid those miserable 4 to 5 hour a day commuting times. NJ Transit facilitates such awful lifestyles, while allowing NY, not NJ, to collect our state income tax. What's NJ's deficit? Roughly equal to the...

Yannuzzi is also shipping high volumes of C&D materials.

Apparently the STB thought the application could be more complete: https://www.progressiverailroading.com/csx_transportation/news/STB-rejects-CSX-application-for-review-of-Pan-Am-acquisition--63594?oly_enc_id=1805D0449278A8U&utm_medium=email&utm_source=prdailynews&utm_campaign=prnewslett...

NS should really be trying to build their business into Massachusetts. "remorse" about buying the Sunbury line suggests to me a lack of leadership.

No doubt NJ's combination of excessive business, income, and real estate taxes along with high electricity costs didn't help the case for keeping the plant open. Its probably cheaper to bake in PA and drive an extra 2 hours each way than to bake in NJ.