[quote="NJTRailfan"]Unfortionatly this happens all to often in this state. NJ hardly manufactures a dman thign any more. We used to manufacvutre everythign fro mtrains, to cars hell at one time with the Pabst Brewery in Newark we even had a beer brewerd i nthis state. Now no thanks to greedy managment who makes the worst .............
Expect their freight trains to slowly dissappear from a good amount of NJ as manufacturing goes south of the border or to the nations across the Pacific. Only time you'l lsee alot of activity in freights is places like Pt Elizabeth, Pt of Los Angeles and other palces that hanldes foreign goods but no where near enough as what it used to be when we had factories dotting the nation.
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As industrial bases shift, these changes also shift with them. When my grandfather was 12 years old, he wiped the fireboxes of steam engines for five cents an hour, just like kids in China do today. In 60 years, that guy's grandchild will be making big bucks, just like my grandfather's nine grandchildren in 3 families are.
The fundamental problem is NJ, NY, CT are difficult places to run basic industry anymore. Trucking, laws, neighbors, wage rates, noise, crime. A look at any siding will show you that. A few that come to mind are the
--Erie West Orange branch, once shoulder to shoulder with manufacturers
--DLW Montclair electric, lined with factories thru Newark, Bloomf
--DLW Boonton Line at Delawanna-Passaic-Clifton. Once four tracks with sidings on both sidings, three jobs asigned for at least two shifts
--Pennsy NEC, look at the abandoned sidings on both sides. Back then PRR run hundreds of trains daily, interleaved switchers, and did it all with armstrong levers and morse code.