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Maybe they can go, hat in hand, to MARC and hope for some more donations...

Doesn't matter, NJT is late in installing PTC so they are short of cars and engines... So if that's the case then you won't see any expanded summer service to the shore... Honestly, aside from seeing east end geeps for the railbuff, this whole PTC mandate by the gov't is one big fiasco which won't ...

What is their other option if they leave MTA? No service?

Yes, If MTA really does increase service and make hourly trips to Middletown, they will need to either purchase more equipment, or restrict their equipment to the Southern Tier. They would probably have enough equipment already if they did that and NJT would be the ones scrambling. It looks like tha...

Are you speaking of the Middletown train? If so, I would agree. I guess they fear stopping on the way back might delay 51 and 53 at Valley and Sterling.

The passing sidings and yard are in the 5 year plan... unfortunately so is NJT.

All this is useless unless more service is added to the PJ Line. It needs to be hourly throughout the day if people would ever consider using it to an airport. As of now, if my flight comes in at 4pm, I'd have to get the 10:30 train back to NYC. Some sort of tram/shuttle to the terminal would make m...

I don’t know if anything is changing from the 6/4 schedule. All of the summer holidays are mentioned in it..

1169 used to be 7 single levels until the change to ML. For a time last Spring/Summer, the train was running with 7 ML. There is still a 7 car NJT single level set out of Suffern. The 8 or 9 car sets used to be prevalent in the 1980's/early 1990's. I believe many platforms along the Main Line have b...

Way back in the day, they typically ran 8-9 car sets on commuter trains...

It’s true. If one leg of a round trip gets cancelled, the other one does too. They don’t keep a lot of spare equipment or crews in PJ.

They’ll blame mechanical issues and whatever else but the truth is that NJT is so poorly run, they just don’t have anybody to operate the trains. Basically if an engineer calls out with the flu, it throws the whole rush hour off.

Do I have to be the one to say that this should have been prevented? Conductor generally closes all other doors, then gives a look to make sure there are no problems down the platform before closing his own. If no one had gotten off, then I could see it happening, but if someone is on the platform h...

I’m pretty sure the whole line used to be double track.

An idea that makes sense, but yes, not in our lifetimes...

Please don't have NJT be in charge of it.....