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Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January |
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Posted by RonInBayside on Fri Dec 14 02:10:36 2007 NJ TRANSIT’s new Wayne/Route 23 Transit Center will open on Saturday, January 12, providing more than 1,000 parking spaces, heated shelters, electronic bus departure screens and bus service seven days a week. On weekdays, the new facility also will be served by trains on the Montclair-Boonton Line, offering customers a new level of travel flexibility.In addition, a new bus route, No. 324 (Wayne/Route 23 Transit Center – New York Express), has been created to provide frequent express service between the new facility and the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Complete information will be available in new timetables. Wayne/Route 23 Transit Center – Click Here for Hours of Operation Bus Service at Wayne/Route 23 Transit Center 324 Wayne/Route 23 Transit Center – New York (PABT) Express 194 Newfoundland – New York (PABT) 198 William Paterson University – New York (weekends only) 75 Butler – Newark (Monday-Friday peak periods only)748 Paterson – Willowbrook (Monday-Saturday) Rail Service at Wayne/Route 23 Transit Center Select trains on the Montclair-Boonton Line will begin serving Wayne/Route 23 Transit Center on Monday, January 14. Mountain View Station will remain open. Mothers Park & Ride Mothers Park & Ride (located one mile north of the new facility) will remain open with weekday-only bus service and new hours of operation. Effective Monday, January 14, the new hours for New York bus departures will be 7:30 – 9:30 AM. Customers traveling after this time should use the new Wayne/Route 23 Transit Center or Willowbrook Park & Ride. Return service to Mothers will be available throughout the day via Bus No. 194 and No. 324. Willowbrook Park & Ride With the opening of the new Wayne/Route 23 Transit Center, the Willowbrook Park & Ride will become a weekday-only operation. Park & Ride customers traveling to/from New York on weekends should use the new Wayne/Route 23 Transit Center. The Willowbrook Shoppers’ Stop will continue to be served seven days a week. Parking Information Parking fees at the new facility, Mothers and Willowbrook are waived for an introductory period until March 1, 2008. Customers may park in any available space. More information will be available soon. For schedules and additional information, please refer to your bus timetable or visit www.njtransit.com. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Fri Dec 14 02:16:56 2007, in response to Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by RonInBayside on Fri Dec 14 02:10:36 2007. Bah. Instead of electrifying the line from Great Notch to Denville, NJT spends money on useless stations that won't get high ridership (see MSU) and does more of this . . . |
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Posted by Fytton on Fri Dec 14 07:44:50 2007, in response to Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by RonInBayside on Fri Dec 14 02:10:36 2007. 'Mothers Park & Ride'Doesn't this contravene gender-discrimination legislation (8-) ? |
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Speaking of the Boonton line ... |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Fri Dec 14 12:23:40 2007, in response to Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by RonInBayside on Fri Dec 14 02:10:36 2007. I'm reading an interesting book called "Erie Lackawanna: Death Of An American Railroad". In it, it contains a map of the Erie system circa 1930. According to it, what we now call the "Main Line" between Patterson and Hoboken is actually the old Lackawanna Boonton line. When and why was this alignment re-arranged? What's left of the original main line between here and Jersey City, if anything? |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Fri Dec 14 12:26:00 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by Olog-hai on Fri Dec 14 02:16:56 2007. Exactly! Diesel service on this line sucks. Headways suck, only a few trains even run through to Hoboken during the peak and the crappies cars in the fleet run on it (I hate those damned Comet IB's). |
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Re: Speaking of the Boonton line ... |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Fri Dec 14 12:34:14 2007, in response to Speaking of the Boonton line ..., posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Fri Dec 14 12:23:40 2007. Correct.The Erie-Lackamoney did a whole bunch of main line reconfigurations. The original Erie Main, which connected Rutherford with Passaic (ran up the middle of Main Avenue, kinda like how the LIRR used to run in the center of Atlantic Avenue before being elevated) was cut. Part of this survives as the Carlton Hill Spur in Rutherford (disused; you can see station remnants, though), and of course the industrial track through Clifton along Railroad Avenue. (This was, IIRC, the original Paterson & Hudson River RR's main line.) The bridge across the Passaic River is long gone. After that, part of the DL&W's Boonton Line was sold to the state of NJ so that they could build I-80 on top of it, between Totowa, West Paterson and Paterson. The part of the DL&W Boonton Line from South Paterson to Hoboken was connected with the Erie's Newark Branch in order to join it to the Erie's main line through Paterson. Result? Today's NJT Main Line. Haven't been in Totowa for a while, so I can't tell you what's become of the industrial spur there that used to be part of the original DL&W Boonton Line. AFAIK, there are some remnants of the ROW still, adjacent to Lackawanna Avenue in Paterson, where the old station used to be. Within Jersey City, the elevated ROW of the Erie leading from the Bergen Arches to the old Erie Terminal is still there, apart from where it was built upon for Newport Mall's western entrance and parking lots. And most recently, the Erie's main line in Secaucus had the approach to the NJ Turnpike's Exit 15X built on it. |
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Re: Speaking of the Boonton line ... |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Fri Dec 14 12:49:32 2007, in response to Re: Speaking of the Boonton line ..., posted by Olog-hai on Fri Dec 14 12:34:14 2007. South of the elevated Patterson station is a diverging freight line and a large yard which is usually filled with tanker cars. It continues due south as the NJT railroad veers in a southeasterly direction. I wonder if this is a remnant of the old ROW. There is a spur near the Totowa station. I didn't know it was anything but a short spur. The Greenwood Lake line ROW also appears to be intact where it branches off near Mountain View, but it appears to be totally inactive. |
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Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Fri Dec 14 13:20:20 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by Fytton on Fri Dec 14 07:44:50 2007. Ollocksbay to the the egislationlay . . . now what if it said "Fathers" instead? (gasp) |
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Posted by R42 4787 on Fri Dec 14 15:27:11 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Fri Dec 14 12:26:00 2007. Gotta love the Comet I-Bs. They're the original Penn Central Arrow I electric MU cars from 1968-69, now push-push cars, just like their Metroliner contemporaries. |
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Posted by timz2 on Fri Dec 14 15:29:09 2007, in response to Re: Speaking of the Boonton line ..., posted by Olog-hai on Fri Dec 14 12:34:14 2007. Last train thru Passaic on the Erie main line was April 1963, wasn't it? Presumably the same date for the original DL&W Boonton line? |
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Posted by R42 4787 on Fri Dec 14 15:31:33 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by Olog-hai on Fri Dec 14 02:16:56 2007. Just buy some next-gen Genesis dual mode units and extend the third rail to Secaucus and you'll have through service to NYP. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Fri Dec 14 15:32:27 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by R42 4787 on Fri Dec 14 15:27:11 2007. Yeah, but NJT ruined theirs long before Amtrak ruined the Metroliners. The bad example was set with the Comet IAs. |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Fri Dec 14 16:06:38 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by R42 4787 on Fri Dec 14 15:27:11 2007. I hate them. Tiny windows, uncomfortable seats, limited door access due to the deactivated cabs. I wish NJT had bought more Comet V's and scrapped these cars. |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Fri Dec 14 16:10:33 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by R42 4787 on Fri Dec 14 15:31:33 2007. That's crazy. NJT lines use catenary, but it's hard to justify the expense of electrifying west of MSU. Ridership drops dramatically. Other lines are more deserving of electrification (Bergen/Main being the most obvious one). |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Fri Dec 14 16:40:26 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Fri Dec 14 16:10:33 2007. NJT lines use catenary, but it's hard to justify the expense of electrifying west of MSU. Ridership drops dramaticallyCould be a correlation, perhaps? |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Fri Dec 14 16:41:38 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Fri Dec 14 16:06:38 2007. Comet Vs were supposed to replace all of them. |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Fri Dec 14 17:14:22 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by Olog-hai on Fri Dec 14 16:40:26 2007. Perhaps. But to get funding for electrification, you have to show an existing need, not a potential need. |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Fri Dec 14 17:15:15 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by Olog-hai on Fri Dec 14 16:41:38 2007. What happened? |
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Posted by trainsarefun on Fri Dec 14 17:18:28 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Fri Dec 14 17:14:22 2007. But to get funding for electrification, you have to show an existing need, not a potential need.Perhaps. You could actually promise those kicking in funds more increased ridership as a percentage via electrification of a relatively less used line, though. |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Fri Dec 14 17:31:19 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by trainsarefun on Fri Dec 14 17:18:28 2007. Which is why NJT's next candidate for electrification has to be the Main and Bergen lines, from Suffern on south. After that, I'd suggest the RVL from Raritan on east. |
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Posted by AMoreira81 on Fri Dec 14 17:34:03 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by Olog-hai on Fri Dec 14 02:16:56 2007. Heh...this has been a joke on some bus boards since this was announced a while back. I mean, there is already the Willowbrook Mall P/R. Unless the line gets electrified, this is a waste.I can think of many more things that the money could have been better spent on...on SubChat topic and off of it. |
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Posted by AMoreira81 on Fri Dec 14 17:34:57 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by R42 4787 on Fri Dec 14 15:31:33 2007. NO! The only thing that will work here is wire, as this feeds into the Montclair Line and Midtown Direct.Then, with sidings, this P/R could become useful. |
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Posted by AMoreira81 on Fri Dec 14 17:36:02 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Fri Dec 14 16:10:33 2007. Actually, the M/B should be finished first, because NJT is about to open ANOTHER white elephant at Mt. Arlington. |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Fri Dec 14 17:42:09 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by AMoreira81 on Fri Dec 14 17:36:02 2007. The Mt. Arlington station could be electrified simply by extending the wire from Dover to Port Morris, a shorter distance. |
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Posted by AMoreira81 on Fri Dec 14 17:47:25 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Fri Dec 14 17:42:09 2007. Actually, not so fast. This would require one more substation, as Mt. Arlington is just beyond the current one's range. (IMO, a new one should be built around Netcong, and then another one near Lincoln Park, to electrify the M/B.) |
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Posted by AMoreira81 on Fri Dec 14 17:51:32 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Fri Dec 14 17:14:22 2007. There is an existing need...the need to slash the amount of buses entering PABT from Passaic County (and Union County too for the RVL for that matter). |
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Posted by RonInBayside on Fri Dec 14 17:59:34 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by AMoreira81 on Fri Dec 14 17:51:32 2007. The number of buses headed for PABT will be increasing in the future. That's why PABT is adding 18 gates with the addition of a tower on top of the building.Adding more rail capacity will control the growth of bus demand, but not stop it. |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Fri Dec 14 18:25:42 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by AMoreira81 on Fri Dec 14 17:47:25 2007. A new substation would be required to electrify the Boonton line anyway. |
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Posted by AMoreira81 on Fri Dec 14 18:30:17 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Fri Dec 14 18:25:42 2007. However, you cannot electrify Mt. Arlington and the rest of the Boonton on one transformer. |
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Posted by WillD on Fri Dec 14 19:01:52 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by Olog-hai on Fri Dec 14 02:16:56 2007. How do you know nothing is being electrified? Those 27 ALP46Ms or '48s aren't going to all be used making 12 car Multilevel trainsets. They could easily equip an electrified WORM between Mt Arlington and Great Notch and NJCL between Long Branch and Bay Head with what remains after the NYP routes recieve a few 12 car ML trainsets.An article about the locomotive purchase in The Record is interesting, but as noted on RR.net is also incredibly vague. It is interesting that an "NJT official" says they're working to eliminate diesel operations, which would point to a new electrification. But it could be that the official isn't familiar with how the multilevel cars affect motive power use and only thinks that new electric locomotives automatically mean diesel locomotives will be replaced. By the same token it is possible the new ALPs will be more powerful and thus be able to haul a 12 car ML train on schedule with just one locomotive. If that is the case then there will be an even more drastic increase in unused electric locomotives if no new electrification is constructed. |
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Posted by WillD on Fri Dec 14 20:01:32 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by R42 4787 on Fri Dec 14 15:31:33 2007. All that does is waste capital funding which will be rendered superflous once the diesel sections are electrified. In the mean time NJT gets to pay more to operate those trains with two locomotives for even a six or so car train. Considering the relatively low cost to complete electrification on the Newark Division and begin electrifying the Hoboken division a short term fix such as operating GEVO dual modes is simply pointless. |
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Posted by jb on Fri Dec 14 21:39:09 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by AMoreira81 on Fri Dec 14 17:34:03 2007. Without becoming BusChat they are moving to close the Willowbrook PR because the mall wants the parking spaces. They are opening the station then building a garage then closing Willowbrook and Mothers to create Wayne Mega Parking Zone :) The traffic at 7pm will be fun. And the mall will get to expand |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Fri Dec 14 22:21:04 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by WillD on Fri Dec 14 19:01:52 2007. Keep dreaming.RRNET is a pack of idiots. Don't believe anything you read there. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Fri Dec 14 22:21:55 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by WillD on Fri Dec 14 20:01:32 2007. All that does is waste capital funding which will be rendered superflous once the diesel sections are electrified"Once"?? PROFF? |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Fri Dec 14 22:22:53 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by AMoreira81 on Fri Dec 14 18:30:17 2007. Substation. |
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Posted by R42 4787 on Fri Dec 14 23:04:33 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Fri Dec 14 17:15:15 2007. There WERE supposed to be replaced by 2003, but were kept running. |
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Posted by WillD on Fri Dec 14 23:04:48 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by Olog-hai on Fri Dec 14 22:21:55 2007. Yes, the electrification of a route tends to be a singular event. A few reelectrifications have been finished, so I guess in that case then the electrification could be said to occur twice. Hey, a few British lines which transitioned from 1500vdc to 6.25kv AC and then to 25kv once clearances were worked out could be said to have electrified no less than three times.Unless of course you're saying that I somehow know NJT is planning to electrify in the near future. I don't, but what is the point of doing these short term fixes? The only real long term solution is to electrify the line and save on the operational costs. |
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Posted by WillD on Fri Dec 14 23:19:30 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by Olog-hai on Fri Dec 14 22:21:04 2007. I didn't post anything from RR.net, I posted something from The Record which I found on RR.net. Whatever hostility you have over being b7'd, removed from moderation, or whatever toward RR.net is misplaced.But fine lets assume NJT isn't electrifying anything, what are those 27 ALP46s for? They don't have enough Multilevels to justify using all of the ALPs on 12 car ML trainsets. You think NJT is going to order locomotives just to have them lay around MMC until ARC is completed and they can raise the frequency on the NEC, NJCL, and Midtown Direct? |
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Posted by 5301 Fishbowl on Sat Dec 15 05:00:05 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Fri Dec 14 16:06:38 2007. >>I wish NJT had bought more Comet V's<<It's a "wash". The Comet 1-B's are old pieces of crap, the Comet V's are newer pieces of crap. :-) |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sat Dec 15 11:52:17 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by 5301 Fishbowl on Sat Dec 15 05:00:05 2007. The Comet V's are the most awesome members of that family of coaches. Dem's fightin' words. |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sat Dec 15 11:53:25 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by R42 4787 on Fri Dec 14 23:04:33 2007. Maybe as more bilevels are introduced on the NEC ... |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sat Dec 15 11:57:53 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by AMoreira81 on Fri Dec 14 18:30:17 2007. I know, but I don't think electrification of the Boonton line is even worthwhile. Electrification (and a proper storage yard) to Port Morris would make more sense, especially if in the FAR, FAR future they decide that they need to electrify the new Lackawanna cutoff route. Port Morris is in the middle of nowhere, has plenty of room for storage tracks AND a substation and already has an NJT employee facility (for crews working trains terminating anywhere from Dover west). |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sat Dec 15 12:03:35 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by WillD on Fri Dec 14 19:01:52 2007. If they're serious about eliminating diesel routes, then the Main and Bergen lines should be their first target, even if the service cannot run to Penn. It's the only major line which is NOT electrified in any way. Service needs on the Boonton, southern NJCL and the line to Hackettstown are just not used enough to justify electrification. Electrification of the PVL would incur serious NIMBY problems. |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sat Dec 15 12:09:28 2007, in response to Re: Boonton line ..., posted by timz2 on Fri Dec 14 15:29:09 2007. According to this book, yes. Boonton line service ended earlier, since the Erie main service was diverted down the Boonton line even before the merger (1958, IIRC) to facilitate it's movement from the Erie JC terminal to the Lackawanna terminal in Hoboken. |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sat Dec 15 12:11:30 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by WillD on Fri Dec 14 23:19:30 2007. Maybe they are there to cover while the ALP-44's are "rebuilt". After that, I'd guess they're for service increases. |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sat Dec 15 12:13:40 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by WillD on Fri Dec 14 23:04:48 2007. I also believe that NJT will expand electrification, especially after ARC is complete. But there will always be SOME diesel needs, otherwise they wouldn't have invested tens of millions of dollars into the PL42's. |
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Posted by 5301 Fishbowl on Sat Dec 15 13:00:18 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sat Dec 15 11:52:17 2007. >>The Comet V's are the most awesome members of that family of coaches.<<Spoken by someone who doesn't have to work with them every day, or by someone who got paid off by Alstom. :-) Yesterday, I got to work with a set with absoulutely no Comet V's (first time in a couple of months). It was a 6 car set, a Comet IV cab car with 5 Comet II-M coaches. It was a pleasure. All of the doors opened and closed in a timely fashion, when I pressed the PA button, I was able to make announcements immediately, and when I got to the yard, I was able to jump on and off the cab car safely to throw switches. All things that do not occur when there is a Comet V cab car in the consist. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Dec 15 13:23:56 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by 5301 Fishbowl on Sat Dec 15 13:00:18 2007. I have indeed heard that Comet IVs, by themselves or with IIMs, are the best trains that NJT operates. |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sat Dec 15 13:26:54 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by 5301 Fishbowl on Sat Dec 15 13:00:18 2007. Of course, my opinion is from the commuter's perspective. I love the Comet V's larger side windows and more comfortable seats. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Dec 15 13:27:06 2007, in response to Re: Wayne Transit Center to serve Boonton Line in January, posted by WillD on Fri Dec 14 23:04:48 2007. I'm not arguing about the real long-term solution.However, thus far, nothing that Sarles and his buddy Kolluri have done has made a scrap of sense. |
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