Is it me or there is a new speed restriction on track 1 east of the Hackensack River bridge? The curve where the freight line of NS merges is sharp, but it seems painfully slow these days with the speed probably as low as 10mph.
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SecaucusJunction wrote:I believe 53 and 66 always have 7 cars.Correct...
SecaucusJunction wrote:I believe 53 and 66 always have 7 cars.Cool! I was under the obviously mistaken impression that there was only one 7 car set, so that is why I was surprised to see two of them at the same time.
SecaucusJunction wrote:It deadheads all the way back to Hoboken. It's a real shame that it couldn't be a revenue run back from Middletown. It would seem to be a very good time for an inbound train for people spending the evening in the city.This makes me curious. How do deadheads work? The engineer is obviously on duty, but is the crew on duty? Other than the tiny fuel savings from avoiding starting and stopping at stations, how much cheaper is it to deadhead a train than to run it in revenue service? Not that I am necessarily proposing to turn that deadhead into a revenue service run.
trainbrain wrote:If the set used on 49 is based out of Hoboken then it probably uses NJ Transit equipment, right? Definitely should be a revenue run if it's going there anyways, but maybe the added time at the stations precludes that train carrying passengers.All equipment is mixed. Usually, I see it with 7 Metro-North C5's, with an NJT Geep. All Metro-North trains on the WOH go to/come from Hoboken