Re: (erielack) Newark Broad and Light Rail

["Philip Martin" <martinpl3_@_earthlink.net>]

Peter Heimbach wrote me off list:  I haven't seen a train with more than
two people in 
in a long time. NS double stacks over a mile long and such. These come
right thru the center of Johnson City.
CSX (former Clinchfield) mile long plus coal trains from the Kentucky and
WVA headed south and empties north bound.
Peter-  You may not see a train with more than two people in it if you ride
this new Broad Street line.  There aren't too many people shuttling between
these two stations.  It sounds as though you've got a lot of railroad
action in your town.
The PCCs on the Newark City Subway are gone, replaced by these twenty first
century vehicles:  much more expensive, with all kinds of gadgets, and I
don't think as good, because you can't see out the front of them.  NJ
Transit uses this type of vehicle on all three of its light rail lines: the
City Subway and its new line to Broad Street Station; the Hudson Bergen
Light Rail, between North Bergen and Bayonne; and the River Line, the
Pennsy's old Bordentown branch, between Trenton and Camden.  The River
Line's vehicles are diesel powered, but otherwise configured the same as
the other line's.  The Hudson Bergen Light Rail uses catenary, from the
foot of Bayonne to Hoboken Terminal, using the old CNJ right of way, and (I
guess,) the old National Docks; and from Hoboken, National Docks again to
Weehawken, where all signs of the NYC, except for the tunnel, have
disappeared.  It uses that West Shore-O&W tunnel to get to it's terminus in
North Bergeen.  Plans are to extend it into Bergen County.
Philip







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