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In all seriousness, how much would it cost just to buy out the remaining businesses upstream of the Portal Bridge? I can't imagine that being more expensive than the cost of building a brand new Portal Bridge. Granted, the current Portal Bridge is old and should probably be replaced, but it seems l...

I always found the lower level loop system fascinating, because there were inner and outer loop tracks. I know the inner ones quickly became impractical due to car lengths growing, but I often wondered why the system was more expansive on the lower level than the upper. I imagined before reversible ...

Yes, more recently, the upper level loop was completely rebuilt - new track, switches, concrete, etc. It's highly functional and as mentioned, used often.

Lower level loop, on the other hand, was deactivated as a result of the LIRR project.

wborys wrote:thanks for the timely reply.
Can I assume the locomotives are both electric and diesel-electric?

Have no idea...the Post's journalism can be sketchy at best. I also believe Amtrak considered the method now being planned for the Canarsie Tubes but deemed it not appropriate for the job at hand. I think the capacity argument is not right - I believe the plan is to open two new tunnels, and close o...

yes you can see a tail track, but that map the track numbers are unreadable. Agree - no actual track # on that old drawing. Does look like a tail on track 101 - almost giving access to the loop area. Note that these maps have to be taken with a grain of salt. I have a number of them at home and the...

I, too, thought that was Track 200 - and when in service it was originally a return track from the outer lower level loop, deep below the station. Not really needed now that the LL loops are out of service.

I am not even sure what the argument here is for. ARC had about $3B from the Feds, about $3B from the Port Authority and the rest was to be taken care of by NJ including any cost overruns. Cristie, as a car guy, had never commuted to the city, but had been gotten stuck many times at "the Merge...

Yes but only for NJ residents is the timely NYC access is a source of their livelihood. I guess for NY as well but NYC has such an excellent access to talented people that it can probably replace all or most NJ residents employed in Manhattan by either NYC residents or residents of NYS suburbs. But...

Going back to my earlier example of the Holland Tunnel, at the time it was being planned, two major projects were on the docket: Holland Tunnel and a bridge over the Delaware into Philly. The reality is, as said above, NJ doesn't really have a major urban hub. South Jersey feeds off Philadelphia, an...

To my great surprise some of the screens in the West End Concourse have been modified to show NJT departures. It is a minor thing, but certainly a move in the right direction. I noticed this too! The southern most "pillar" in the center of the floor has NJT and Amtrak departures on it. I ...

All good points. It's clear the Hudson Tunnel Project was trying to circumvent the railroads. Interestingly, during the coal famine in the 1910s, the North River PRR tunnels were used to haul coal freight to Queens since the river was frozen. The city lifted its ban on freight in the tunnel due to t...

just take look at pictures of receptacles , currently the traction trainline at one side and communications trainline on other side. to couple up with cars reversed the receptacles should be switched to other side. . Hmm...so I suppose they had to do this with the current cab cars being used in fro...

I'm currently reading the book Highway Under the Hudson: The Building of the Holland Tunnel and it's interesting how 100 years ago the same battle was being waged to build the Holland. Between NY and NJ, and both states and the Federal government. It took a coal famine and labor strike to push every...

From NJT's "FYI" newsletter distributed today: "...113 'next-generation' multilevel rail cars (MLV III). Fifty-eight of the MLV III cars are self-propelled electric cars which allows them to connect with other MLV cars and operate without a locomotive. The remaining MLV III rail cars ...