by trainbrain
The employee timetable I have shows X52 passing through Suffern around 3:30.
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riffian wrote:Road the Main and Bergen County lines earlier this week after a lapse of over 10 years. I was surprised to see who many lineside businesses no longer use rail and how few customers NS has left on these lines. Former active shippers such as the ink plant in Rutherford and the lumber yard in Garfield are obviously moribund and appear to have been so for some years. Even more surprising was the former NS Thoroughbred transload facility in Paterson appeared completely abandoned and weed choked. Did it relocate, or just quit the service offering?Here's a list of active customers I know of:
The only truly active shippers appeared to be the spaghetti plant across from the Broadway station and the plastics companies in Hawthorne and Clifton. The track leading down to the Nabisco plant in Radburn appeared to be regularly used, so they must still be a customer. Are these four customers all that left on these lines? Is it still the H56 that serves these lines? If so how often is it now running.
Thanks in advance for any info/clarification.
trainbrain wrote:Ahh that's why there were so many NJT cab cars on MNCR trains over the summer. They must've had some shopped for PTC installation. On the 3 car set, do they actually run both engines or do they use 1 and have the other just act as a cab car? I assume on the longer set they would use both.From what I have observed on the NJT sets is that both engines are running with full HEP and all.
EuroStar wrote:Today there are at least two sets on the line with two engines -- the cab cars are shopped for PTC installation. One set is three cars with 4204 pointing towards Hoboken and 4504 away from Hoboken. The second set is longer with two Metro-North engines. The one towards Hoboken is 4914, but I could not get the number of the other one.4202 and 4109 were the sets today pointing towards Hoboken... Not sure if they swapped out the MNRR engines because both of the sets were NJT. One of them was a 3 car set and the other was a 4 car set. One of the sets had a Dual Mode on the one end and the other had an Alstom Diesel engine...
EuroStar wrote:Today there are at least two sets on the line with two engines -- the cab cars are shopped for PTC installation. One set is three cars with 4204 pointing towards Hoboken and 4504 away from Hoboken. The second set is longer with two Metro-North engines. The one towards Hoboken is 4914, but I could not get the number of the other one.4908
EuroStar wrote:Apparently an NJ stone train is suspected in starting a mile long fire in the town of Glen Rock. The claim is that the train was dragging something, possibly a coupler, that caused sparks that ignited the grasses. While NJ transit is investigating and has not confirmed what started the fire, I am inclined to believe the local accounts that the train was dragging something and I feel for the employees that last touched the train as scapegoats are likely to be searched for and found eventually.Would love for them to post the video from the passing commuter train, then we can all armchair quarterback it! which i'm not being sarcastic about it's fun to speculate these things since a real answer may never be known.
http://www.nj.com/bergen/index.ssf/2017 ... think.html