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Re: (erielack) Newark Broad and Light Rail

Oops... I meant the PCCs were withdrawn in 2001, not 2004!



- -------------- Original message from "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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