RE: (erielack) Feb. 67 Suburban Timetable / Equipment

["JG at graytrainpix" <graytrainpix_@_hotmail.com>]

Given that service restoration on the Main-Bergen County Lines started about 
6 months after the October 1966 cuts, I suspect that someone at NJ Dept. of 
Transportation was urging the EL at the time not to start junking the older 
Stillwells and Boonton cars.  Talks regarding subsidy increases must have 
started soon after the cutback, maybe before.  According to Roger Grant, the 
Commuter Operating Authority (the mechanism in NJDOT which provided commuter 
service subsidy) started in June 1966, just before the cuts.  (The order 
allowing the cuts came in May, 66).  So, New Jersey did respond, but it took 
time to set up, as with all government bureaucracy.  So it's not all that 
surprising that the EL knew that the State would soon pay for more service, 
and thus held on to most of the coaches.  Nonetheless, there must have  been 
an unsung hero in NJDOT who pushed the EL to stay ready to put trains back.  
One of those little stories that you wish you could read about, but may be 
lost forever.

Jim Gerofsky

>From: "Montgomery, Edward T" <Edward.Montgomery_@_fcps.edu>
>To: "JG at graytrainpix" 
><graytrainpix_@_hotmail.com>,<erielack@lists.railfan.net>
>Subject: RE: (erielack) Feb. 67 Suburban Timetable
>Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 08:39:33 -0400
>
>The thing that amazed me about these cuts is why EL management didn't
>rid itself of extra equipment at the point of cutting back all of the
>trains because after New Jersey say the effects, and increased the
>subsidies the cars were there to reinstate the service.  Was there some
>law that required a railroad to store passenger cars for a certain time
>before scrapping began?
>
>Ed Montgomery
>
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