Train has blowed its horn about 100 times coming back through Farmingdale right now
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Bracdude181 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2020 5:47 pm OI16 is headed for browns with 4432 in the consist. Might be a power change.Sand is not happening any time soon. The Gateway Project for the tunnels haa gone nowhere, and nothing has been done south of MP 61 to connect the rail and/or remove brush.
Also, seeing as how there's been survey crews inspecting the southern and now that Amtrak is finally moving forward with bridge and tunnel repairs, does that mean we will finally sand trains on the southern? All that work from Lakehurst to Woodmansie was meant to have sand trains go north towards this supposedly...
CharlieL wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2020 10:27 am It would seem to make more sense to me, should the sand trains roll for the tunnel project, to rebuild the Freehold-Farmingdale segment and route them thataway, keeping them off the NJ coast line, where they would be as welcome as a skunk in your garage, as much as possible.If no improvements are made to the FIT, that journey would be much longer and more inefficient than routing via BANK. The Coast Line is much faster (mileage and speed) than the FIT and Amboy Secondary, and the track from Freehold to Jamesburg in at least a few places is less than stellar and probably wouldn't be able to handle very many sand trains.