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#1 KevinKorell

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Posted 15 October 2016 - 02:20 PM

Newark, NJ Star-Ledger, 10/14/16:

North Jersey train commuters closer to having one-seat ride to NYC


The best feature of Amtrak's proposed Gateway Project for commuters from Bergen and Passaic counties may be a new track that gives them a one-seat ride to and from Manhattan.

That feature is the Secaucus Loop, which often gets overlooked in the larger Gateway Project to build two new Hudson River Tunnels, a Penn Station New York annex and additional tracks in New Jersey.


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Posted 25 October 2016 - 11:53 AM

Aren't the trains from Bergen and Passaic to Hoboken diesel powered?

If so, I don't see how a Secaucus loop would provide a one seat ride thru the new (or old) Hudson River tunnels into Penn Station.

 

 



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Posted 25 October 2016 - 12:04 PM

Pete, the answer is dual mode locomotives, the same as which have provided one-seat rides for New York Penn Station in the past couple of years from the Raritan Valley Line and the southern (diesel) portion of the North Jersey Coast Line.



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