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Yes, new bridges would have to be built. Light rail river bridges and ship traffic do not mix. I don't want to turn this into a bus thread but probaby the only short term solution right now is improving the service on the parallel NJT 1 bus route between NWK and JC. Maybe have certain buses termina...

There may be a long shot for a return to suburbia - including Sussex County: https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-another-exodus-ahead-for-u-s-cities-11592488220?st=3sklm716cei6l8i&reflink=share_mobilewebshare Fair Use: ..The twin crises of Covid-19 and the recent civil unrest represent a turning po...

it seems to me that if NJT runs out of functioning Arrow 3s, they could "isolate" the line from the national system to get out from under FRA crash standards and such and run some basicallyoff -the-shelf DMUs like the River Line cars. They'd only need a couple. Yes, because such cars are ...

So it looks like NJT will be a part of Moynihan station after all. (or at least rehab parts of Penn Station) https://www.progressiverailroading.com/passenger_rail/news/NJ-Transit-awards-contracts-for-Raritan-bridge-Penn-Station-projects--60460 How does building an extension of the Central Concourse...

This is a survey, not a study.

I don't think anyone envisions high speed through the Poconos. But in Lackawanna days, the New York Central controlled the Lackawanna and didn't want the Lackawanna competing with it for passenger traffic so they kept the Lackawanna's speeds slower than they might have been. if the cutoff were rest...

I didn't do a rigorous search but it looks like Midtown Direct trains Dover-NYP expresses (such as they are) take around 1 hour 23 minutes or longer. Of course they go to NYP instead of HOB which makes them more comparable to Martz. So the 3 hour 15 minute trip on the Snow, which left from HOB, is ...

The Phoebe Snow made Hoboken-Scranton in 3 hours 15 minutes. This included 58 minutes Hoboken-Dover. No NJT train makes Hoboken-Dover in anywhere near that time. I have no idea if Martz actually meets its published schedules, but it claims 3 hours or 3 hours 15 minutes Scranton-ny. Sure, a train ri...

What's 765? That would be the former New York, Chicago & St. Louis (Nickel Plate) 2-6-4 at Steamtown, IINM. And I'd hazard a guess that if there to be enough traffic, including passenger, to warrant it, we'd see signaling and track upgrades to improve speed. If under basic commuter rail standar...

When I rode behind the 765 in 2015 from Scranton to the DWG, our trip took more than doubled the amount of driving time. Would we want passengers to be riding in a commuter train that takes about two hours to travel what is between 45 and 80 miles of close to direct roads? No. Either the excessive ...

Backshophoss wrote: ↑Sat Feb 29, 2020 12:51 pm The "Snow" has passed on to RR history,,Amtrak will NEVER run service out of Hoboken, Just get the rails to Andover and then STOP!!!
PA is anti mass transit GIVE UP on Scranton,please!!!!!!

. The Phoebe Snow did Dover-Scranton in 2 hours 10 minutes. If that time were maintained we would have 3 hours Hoboken-Boonton. That's a pretty long commute. That's just about walking speed. I have never heard of anyone who could walk at 40 mph. I am looking at a 1954 timetable for the PS and the t...

How could Amtrak operate push-pull with Empire Service trains? The only way that could happen is if NY State somehow thought to invest in some kind of dual- mode DMUs (if third rail, would need to be able to bridge the third-rail gaps east of the platforms; but it is unlikely that the aforementione...

The Raritan Valley Line's "one-seat ride" into Penn Station New York will be studied by NJ Transit and a report must be issued in July, according to legislation signed by Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday. Bill No. S3574, which passed both houses of the state Legislature in December, requires th...

The old, troublesome trains on NJ Transit’s River Line are getting the rail equivalent of a heart transplant. All 20 trains on the 34-mile long River Line — which runs between Trenton and Camden — are scheduled to receive new diesel engines that meet higher environmental standards and are more fuel...