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Re: Report NJTR delays here

 by philipmartin ¦  Wed Jul 23, 2008 9:42 am ¦  Forum: New Jersey Transit NJT Rail and Light Rail LRT ¦  Topic: Report NJTR delays here ¦  Replies: 907 ¦  Views: 76978

I'm ticket agent at Morristown these days. It seems to me that NJT has an awful lot of equipment failures. As for knowing when a train will be able to roll again, my experience is that nobody knows that until it's about ready to happen. How many times have we told customers to go to the opposite tra...

Re: National Docks/lines in Hoboken and Jersey City

 by philipmartin ¦  Wed Jul 23, 2008 9:00 am ¦  Forum: Conrail - 1976 to the Present ¦  Topic: National Docks/lines in Hoboken and Jersey City ¦  Replies: 40 ¦  Views: 12405

Closing angle cocks was a favorite way of stopping trains when I worked Nave in the late 1960ies and early 70ies. I'd help the the train crews or police walk the train, looking for turned angle cocks. A closed an angle cock cuts off the air to the cars behind it, dragging a train to a slow stop if i...

Re: Hudson Yard's "Lone Ranger"

 by philipmartin ¦  Wed Jul 23, 2008 7:18 am ¦  Forum: Lehigh and Hudson River Railway ¦  Topic: Hudson Yard's "Lone Ranger" ¦  Replies: 2 ¦  Views: 3925

I worked second trick at G tower from 1960 to 1964, and again briefly in 1972 when it closed; and I don't remember the L&H employing a trackman for Hudson Yard. It strikes me as unlikely that they would pay someone to tighten the bolts at just that one location and on their bridge over the Delaw...

Re: PRR Runthrough Freights?

 by philipmartin ¦  Wed Jul 23, 2008 2:50 am ¦  Forum: Lehigh and Hudson River Railway ¦  Topic: PRR Runthrough Freights? ¦  Replies: 3 ¦  Views: 1718

In 1960 the PRR had a brief tug boat strike, so they ran a lot of freight over the L&H and across the Poughkeepsie bridge. I worked G tower from 1960 to "64, and again in '72 when it closed. I was on vacation during the tug boat strike, so only heard about it.
Philip Martin

Re: Third Rail Passenger Operations

 by philipmartin ¦  Sun Jul 13, 2008 5:39 pm ¦  Forum: Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines ¦  Topic: Third Rail Passenger Operations ¦  Replies: 17 ¦  Views: 19068

I was on the Camden riverfront a couple of years ago, near the battleship New Jersey, and I saw a display somewhere, with a photo of a fairly large PRR passenger terminal in Camden with third rail MP54 MUs. The whole thing was a complete surprise for this former Pennsy employee: third rail MP54s, la...

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