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Discussion about the M&E, RVRR and SIRR lines of New Jersey, and also the Maine Eastern operation in Maine. Official web site can be found here: www.merail.com.

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 #901101  by carajul
 
Just wondering if the M&E is doing anything to re-acquire lost customers along the main that goes thru Morristown. There are quite a few spurs not using rail. Is the RR management trying to smooze the customers back to rail?

Also, why don't they serve the lumber yard anymore? That spur is now a jungle. Seems like lumber would be good on rail shipping. The spur goes right thru the parking lot.

I traveled the line on Live Maps and it appears the only thing the line is used for anymore is store old NJT and pax cars.
 #901108  by R36 Combine Coach
 
The surviving customers are B&G, Royal Lube and Givaudan, all at the east end. In the late 80s or even early 90s, there were as many as a dozen active customers. The Jefferson team track was recently built to serve as a "community freight station" to customer not directly on line. Not sure how much use it has.
 #901172  by blockline4180
 
R36 Combine Coach wrote:The surviving customers are B&G, Royal Lube and Givaudan, all at the east end. In the late 80s or even early 90s, there were as many as a dozen active customers. The Jefferson team track was recently built to serve as a "community freight station" to customer not directly on line. Not sure how much use it has.
There is also a new customer along the team track just west of Jefferson Ave. I have seen several tank cars spotted there recently.
 #901315  by RS115
 
I assume you're referring to Morristown lumber. While they have a siding they're a small local outfit that hasn't gotten a car since sometime in the late 70's or so. Lumber used to move to Channel much later till they went belly-up. The ex-NJT Comet 1b's are now off the property. Some of the pass cars at Whippany are stored PV and generate some revenue.
 #901409  by joe k
 
Suburban Propane is just east of the Whippany yard with the long siding extending to Route 10...........there are a few cars the M&E has stored there, you can see them from Route 10. SP will use rail based on seasonal temps and price.

The Whippany Paper Eden Mill (located off Parsippany Rd now a vacant lot) was the largest customer on the line for many years until it closed in the late 80's
This was had a major impact on M&E and many local contractors and merchants in town.........wast paper and finished product would be shipped in / out........... The M&E would move about 20 box cars per day at the WHippany Paper Mill alone! freight would come and go from both ends of the line.