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Passenger Trains > NJ: a few hours along the NECDate: 03/30/15 17:28 NJ: a few hours along the NEC Author: Lackawanna484 I had the opportunity to spend about two hours alongside the NEC, just south of New Brunswick NJ today. Cold, windy, deeply overcast day, so I decided to watch trains. There were a lot of trains. No old baggage cars, and just two MU sets. The MU trains are increasingly rush hour only on the NEC.
600s are new Sprinters 900s are old AEM-7 units 2000s are Acela power units 4500s are NJ Transit dual mode ALP45 motors 4600s are NJ Transit electric ALP46 motors 606 (a new Sprinter) with a westbound regional train at 840am 4509 (an NJ Transit dual mode) originating train 3720 from Jersey Avenue 4646 (an NJ Transit ALP-46) inbound with 3711, will turn as 3722 4648 with a Trenton semi-express 2039/2035 (Acela set) inbound, a few minutes late, blocking 3722 4510 eastbound with a local train from Trenton 925am 4646 asks for permission toward NY with train 3722 (denied) 939 (AEM-7) eastbound with 6 cars on a regional 929am 2001/2003 westbound at 930am 4646 finally departs with 3722 932am [DS is probing an outbound train at Newark Airport about why it had a six minute dwell at the Airport] NJT MU set eastbound at 935am (one of only two MU sets seen today) 4609 west with a Trenton local Amtrak 523 with a work train asks for permission to leave ADAMS yard, just south of me 4641 with a single level train at 936am Work train reports clear 934 eastbound with a long distance train and a sparkling new baggage car 945am 4622 with a single deck train west 946am 929 with a westbound Keystone train 1003am (this 17 minute gap was unusual) 629 eb on a regional 1009am 4652 with a westbound multilevel train 1013am 2030/2031 Acela eb at 1014am 4660 eb with multilevel coaches 1015am 927 eb with a Keystone train 1026am 2038 +1 Acela wb at 1032am 4610 wb with a single level train 1039am 921 eb with a regional train 1041am 946 wb with a regional train 1046am 4634 wb with a multilevel train 1046 (Left to run some errands) ? Sprinter with train 91 and a new baggage car around 1130 If I had been north of New Brunswick at Rahway, Linden, Elizabeth, etc I would have seen all of these trains plus the trains to and from the North Jersey Coast Line. Add another four+ trains per hour for that. Date: 03/31/15 14:15 Re: NJ: a few hours along the NEC Author: 8notch Thanks. It would have been neat to have that in time lapse.
Robert Date: 03/31/15 14:23 Re: NJ: a few hours along the NEC Author: Lackawanna484 8notch Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks. It would have been neat to have that in > time lapse. > Robert There were a few points where three trains were in sight at the same time. |