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You can find a map at showing the line at http://www.terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?t=2&s=12&x=706&y=5653&z=18&w=1 (enter it all as one line) The map shows a station on the west side of the pompton road crossing, between Grove and Myrtle Ave The line connected with the Erie (Gree...

You can find a map at showing the line at http://www.terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?t=2&s=12&x=706&y=5653&z=18&w=1 (enter it all as one line) The map shows a station on the west side of the pompton road crossing, between Grove and Myrtle Ave The line connected with the Erie (Gree...

Any Northeast Corridor riders out there who can report any
activity on strengthening the SIRR bridge over the NEC?

Someone posted a few weeks ago that steel for that
project should be arriving soon...
JS

Well, that is surprisingly good news, hard to believe. 5 years is not so long in these things. Is this one of those things that is for real, ie. PA is really going to do it, or is it just been approved to be on a wish list, depends on federal funding getting allocated...? What other agencies would h...

Is an extension of PATH from Newark Penn Station to Newark Airport ever seriously discussed? Or has it permanently been put to rest? Sorry if it has been discussed to death—I don't follow PATH closely. JS

WHat traffic is there on the east end of the LV Perth Amboy branch. (east of the NJCL)? There is some plant or warehouse east of Parker St just south of the Outerbridge, and from the Outerbridge just on the south side you can see some kind of tank farm by the water with ship loading/unloading. Do th...

Is the Co-steel sayreville Steel plant (called Gerdau Ameristeel now?)
on Crossman Rd still a rail customer?

What other customers are there east of Gillespie junction?
How far east of Gillespie do active rails go?
Thanks

not in march, sorry

In March Jtgshu mentioned a steel plant that gets served daily in Perth Amboy. Is that Raritan Co-steel just south of the PErth Amboy NJ transit station (on the west side of the tracks)? Or is it something else? THanks, JS Also, what plant is it on the far east end of the ex LV perth Amboy branch (e...

I was on the Riverline in trenton for first time this weekend, and although I didn't look close, it may be that the direct connection from the riverline (the old local freight track that runs along Route 129 in trenton) to the northeast corridor (going northbound, which was the only connection) is g...

How far up from Bordentown is the south end of this line active? I think this end is called "Robbinsville Industrial track" by conrail. From aerial photos (www.aerialsexpress.com, dated 2002-2004) I see cars at a factory spur just north of Yardville (fronting on Rte 130), and the same pict...

As the first post in this thread said, it looks like the connection from the perth amoby branch to the Chem Coast/NJLB diamond is railtrailed: http://www.ci.perthamboy.nj.us/NR050204.pdf http://www.ci.perthamboy.nj.us/August_2004.02.pdf (see page 6) Also from City of Perth Amboy web site, it looks l...