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Bracdude181 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 14, 2023 3:33 pm Question is, are they going to do it on the way down or on the way back if they do it tomorrow.

#1626617 by Kaback9
Mon Jul 31, 2023 4:40 pm

K,
Yes there was a lot of sand mined other than Woodmansie. The areas North and South of Lakehurst had huge sand mines. There were more near Chatsworth. I only mentioned Woodmansie because it is still active. (but not currently rail-served)

PennRail42 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 14, 2023 9:41 am Maybe to get the other end?

Bracdude181 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 14, 2023 9:32 am Thank you Pennrail. Hopefully they do something like this tomorrow with RB-1

PennRail42 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 14, 2023 7:58 am 1888 is South of Okerson on new rails per Facebook Group as of 10AM

Nice to meet you Lakehurst.

JohnFromJersey wrote:

Toms River Industrial Track ran down to Tuckerton

The issues in Lakewood started beginning in the late 90s when Brooklyn began migrating to Northern Ocean and Southern Monmouth Counties. As a 30 year resident of Howell I saw the entire area change. George Gould would never recognize the town he commuted from today to his CNJ office on his railroad....

AFAIK the sand ttrains from Woodmansie did not start until about 1980. (give or take) I only remember seeing covered hoppers on the unit sand trains. I lived on Maxim Road from 82-92 and saw quite a few of them. The JS-1 & SJ-2 were mixed freight. By the late 60s the little freight interchange a...

HazzanDan wrote: ↑Sun Jul 23, 2023 11:31 am Southard Avenue (not Southern Avenue). This new track will make the entire junction into a wye.

#1626034 by JohnFromJersey Thu Jul 20, 2023 6:03 pm wrote: He did say it was back in the Pennsy days. Back then, Pennsy was the only RR that ran on the NEC in NJ (if I am correct). This was true until the Aldene Plan when CNJ Raritan and Coast Line trains were diverted to Newark Penn. Also Reading ...

Bracdude181 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 23, 2023 9:15 am Are they gonna use that old PRR track going towards Sea Girt for anything?

Going back to the Gold Lumber discussion, here’s how bad the track was in the mid 2000s. Notice the plow hitting the dirt, it was that bad!!! https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230719/ca2a0b9b27a3c89577912701039e1e9c.jpg As another poster has noted this is not the Gold Lumber siding but is the FIT....

John from Jersey, Yes a passenger train from Ocean County will be slower than driving, but much less stress. I commuted (via auto) from Howell to Livingston for 18 years. If there had been a way to use transit I would have done it to get off the highways. I firmly believe the Toms River Park & R...

Seeing all the talk about the TRIT being history is interesting. The State just replaced the crossing at Bimini Road. And it has not seen a train since about 2005.