So, in my work travels today, I came upon a rather strange oddity, on the northern branch in Tenafly NJ. A single fully rebuilt crossing, and I mean a solid class 1 concrete crossing. The rest of the areas/crossings I passed were typical “hasn’t seen a train in years” kind of tracks. Anyone know why this one crossing was rebuilt? I could see a crossing getting real bad to drive over, but at that point the crossing could just be paved over, by the town. This work was clearly done by CSX. And recently it appears.
"New Jersey Transit plans to restore passenger service over a portion of the CSX line between North Bergen and Tenafly as an extension of the Hudson–Bergen Light Rail from Tonnelle Avenue, known as the Northern Branch Corridor Project." Found this quote on the topic.
Let me know if I'm thinking of the wrong area as we do railcar storage in the NJ area and I personally don't frequent the area.