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Salem Line gets $1.75MM from DRPA

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Salem Line gets $1.75MM from DRPA

  by CRB
 
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news ... 948640.htm
The Delaware River Port Authority yesterday approved giving $1.75 million in bridge-toll revenues toward the rehabilitation of an antiquated railroad line between Swedesboro and Salem.

The 17-mile line is in such poor condition that it cannot carry the load of most other railroads. Derailments are common, and the ride is too rocky to transport finished products, forcing more trucks onto county roads, said Deborah Turner-Fox, the county's clerk of the board and administrator.

One mile of track already has been rehabilitated, and the project should be completed in about three years, Turner-Fox said.

  by kevikens
 
The newspaper article mentions passenger service. What kind of passenger service would operate on this line ?

  by njt4172
 
kevikens wrote:The newspaper article mentions passenger service. What kind of passenger service would operate on this line ?
Yes, it probably won't happen for another 2 or 3 years, but I talked to someone who works for the SRRofNJ and he said tourist passenger trains would probably run into and out of Salem, NJ with the F7's....

Steve

  by kevikens
 
Now that I think about this I think somebody tried this about 15 years ago going to and from some resturant as a kind of dinner trains. I think the passenger coaches were D&L mu's painted tuscan red but I can't recall if they were pulled by F units.

  by chuchubob
 
I don't remember how long ago, but the West Jersey Chapter-NRHS chartered a Budd RDC for a lunch train from Salem to Woodstown. The restaurant was on Route 40 where the railroad crosses at grade.

  by CRB
 
I seem to recall an excursion train that ran on the weekends leaving from next to La Vitas in Woodstown. This would have been maybe 15 years ago.
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