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 by baldwr ¦  Fri May 07, 2004 1:12 am ¦  Forum: New Jersey Transit NJT Rail and Light Rail LRT ¦  Topic: Morris & Essex Lines – Q&A session ¦  Replies: 24 ¦  Views: 4130

Yeah, I was only kidding...to a certain extent. I don't know the performace specs of either the Arrows or the DL&W MUs. The MUs though were however robust pieces of equipment. Think of the years of servcie they put behind them compared to the Arrows. The Arrow IIIs have alredy been completly reb...

 by baldwr ¦  Fri May 07, 2004 1:03 am ¦  Forum: New Jersey Transit NJT Rail and Light Rail LRT ¦  Topic: When were DL&W electric MUs retired? ¦  Replies: 41 ¦  Views: 8228

I was 6 years old when the last run was made. I used to live out by Morristown at the time, but we used to live in Chatham up to the prior winter. A few days before the last run, my mom and I parked the car at Chatham and met my dad in Hoboken. We rode the Tom Tabor Express out from Hoboken which st...

 by baldwr ¦  Tue May 04, 2004 10:46 pm ¦  Forum: New Jersey Transit NJT Rail and Light Rail LRT ¦  Topic: Morris & Essex Lines – Q&A session ¦  Replies: 24 ¦  Views: 4130

1. Why only two tracks between Millburn and Summit? Isn't this a bottleneck? Simply put, the demand was never there in the days of the DL&W—though I would not consider this the cause of the bottleneck today. The bigger bottleneck is how NJT manages its trains when in triple-track territory. In ...