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Posted by WhiteBus on Mon Sep 15 16:17:27 2014 A recent thread has discussed the Montclair Connection. But the folks (who were numerous) at Arlington Stn were left out in the cold even tho it was September when this change took place. But this change to me just represents how much of the current NJT rail system is just "cobbled together" with remnants of trunk routes. For example on the original Boonton Line in DL&W days the trains just about flew, then the line was combined with the much slower Greenwood Lake Line, then combined again with the Montclair Branch. Another example is the "Aldene Plan". Previously the CNJ trains had a fast direct run to Jersey City and then Lower Manhattan (on the ferry for sure). Same for the North Jersey Coast trains. The landscape is very different today, but I think that many of the route changes and abandonments of the 1960s especially were made in anticipation of either complete abandonment or of some limited "rush hour only" service. Do I have a valid point here? |
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