(erielack) Newark City Subway

[cbschneider_@_att.net]

At the risk of straying away from EL content, I wanted to say that I too miss the old PCCs and took my one and only ride on them in August 2004 only 2 weeks before they stopped running.  The old PCCs combined with the atmosphere of the old stations, tunnels, platforms, and signals, was as close to time travel as I think you could ever come in 2004.  I especailly like the point at which the NCS crosses over the DL&W cut.  One of the old yellow DL&W speed limit signs is still visible here on the wall of the cut (obligatory EL content).  It was a sweet experience that I will never forget.  I hope all the PCC cars are being well cared for in storage as they await the next chapter in their lives, which is hopefully NOT scrapping.  Anybody know what is going to happent to them?
Thanks, and sorry for the non-EL content I just couldn't resist a comment on the Newark City Subway.
Charles Schneider

- -------------- 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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