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Didn't Septa used to go all the way to Newark on this line? From what I've heard, Septa seems to be in a better spot than NJT at this moment, could they do some sort of joint service to reduce the economic costs? Conrail used to go all the way to Newark from Philadelphia, under SEPTA and NJDOT. Thi...

photobug56 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 19, 2022 10:12 pm Is that a result of rail regulation, excesses by EPA, corrupt government agencies, etc.? I will grant that some railroads seem capable of a task like this in a tiny fraction of the time, though they have their own issues.

Could it be that NJT will ever order a full 2 level commuter car? That would be close to what is close to being ordered in Europe. If that is even in (N)JT’s very long-range plans, then the tunnel ceiling would need clearance for that CAT. Is the present end of line CAT 25 Kv? What exactly are you ...

photobug56 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 19, 2022 9:23 pm Very true. These days regulation is mostly reactive, years later than needed, and weak.

Hasn't stopped NJT from buying more MLV cab cars and trailer cars from Alstom. Calls priorities into question at the very least.

Really useful reply there. The past two years have nothing to do with the eight before that.

No need to exaggerate. Amtrak does far better than a 33-mph average speed on even its slowest operations. Now NJT might not breach 30 mph average speed on Dover “express” trains that make every stop between there and Summit, but what’s to hold Amtrak back, particularly west of Dover? Oh please. The...

Amtrak won't be able to run faster than NJT east of Dover, and at least parts of that line, maybe all of it, are probably at capacity now, Yet I have heard no talk of increasing capacity on the M&E, maybe because of its prohibitive cost. Sure, you could run trains fast on the 28 miles of the Cu...

High speed rail? You can certainly take the right of way west of its current terminus and install new concrete ties, welded rails and signals to make it 90+mph territory but the current NJT section is going to be slow going even with very few station stops. 4 hours one way is about the best Amtrak ...

Getting close to ten years on this thread and still no sign of the MU version of the MLV.

TDowling wrote: ↑Sun Jul 18, 2021 12:22 am I knew the Kingsland station was on its last legs

Dcell wrote: ↑Wed Jan 12, 2022 3:45 pm The project is moving forward, effectively ending Jimmy Wilson's dream. https://www.nj.com/opinion/2022/01/this ... inion.html

Roadgeek Adam wrote: ↑Wed Jan 12, 2022 9:58 pm It had to be done. There was no other way anything else was going to succeed.

How many of us here will be in our graves by the time this opens, even presuming on schedule? Only took the PRR two years to build the original tunnels under the Hudson River. Even in spite of technological advances in tunneling, federal governmental bureaucratic morass (which should have no role i...

Gov. Christie cancelled it within that twenty year period and redirected the state funds to highways in New Jersey. He had legitimate reasons, but it was also a blatant play to his car-driving constituency and his Sopranos-inspired image as a buster. He's not the only politician of his generation t...