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brwfan wrote:Njt 4513 is in Washington yardHeaded to Alstom in Hornell, NY for PTC installation. That’s where those MUs came from.
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brwfan wrote:Njt 4513 is in Washington yardHeaded to Alstom in Hornell, NY for PTC installation. That’s where those MUs came from.
Joseph DeLuisi wrote:Anything New Going On Up There? Is NS Still Running Things Or The D&R?
pdtrains wrote:I'll be happy to see a shortline operator on the former DL&W lines. Maybe they'll drum up some business. Not that I want to see 2 more NS jobs abolished, but they were taking 12 hours to do a RT from allentown to washington. Sometimes they would take 12 hours for a 1 way trip. And sometimes 2 to 3 days to get a car from Allentown to a customer in the dover area.
And on a personal note, I'll never miss SD-40's on locals. SW's, GP-9's are much more my speed. I already got my pix of boring NS engines trundling thru the fields of western NJ. I'm just sayin
pdtrains wrote:OT, but yea, the state of NJ has certainly helped persuade 90% (or more) of the industry in north jersey to leave. Some would have left anyway, and Conrail was no help at all. They wanted to eliminate as much carload freight as possible. Trying to talk their local customers into trucking freight from a pad at Croxton to their companies, and ripping out team tracks, cause their lawyers considered team tracks a liability.Absolutely. The big issue (that few like to talk about) is the fact that there are *way* too many pieces of local government in this state. 21 counties is a bit much, but whatever -- the fact we have 565 municipalities is ridiculous. That's one for every 16k people, and each one is levying its own set of taxes to fund governmental structures that are in many cases redundant. The economies of scale that could be realized if even a hundred were cut would be massive, and would vastly reduce tax load w/o cutting services...but I digress from trains.
CR7876 wrote:For what its worth, or not worth, The NS moved around 1,500 cars on the Washington Sec this year, this includes the DRRV and M&E interchange.What would NS bring into NJ via the Washington Sec. vs the Lehigh Line (to Oak Island, for example or elsewhere)? Only traffic for the ex DL&W basically and that short piece of the CNJ in the Kenvil area & the D&R. ?
pumpers wrote:CR7876 wrote:For what its worth, or not worth, The NS moved around 1,500 cars on the Washington Sec this year, this includes the DRRV and M&E interchange.What would NS bring into NJ via the Washington Sec. vs the Lehigh Line (to Oak Island, for example or elsewhere)? Only traffic for the ex DL&W basically and that short piece of the CNJ in the Kenvil area & the D&R. ?