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RE: (erielack) Extended Commuter Service

A lot depends on who owns the ROW. The entire ROW from end to end. Has any of it reverted back to the original owners yet, sold to a utility, or someone else? The ROW that's owned by the park service or whoever operates the bike-n-hike, then it gets complicated.

Can you get them to sell the ROW?

Can you lease half from them, build an adjacent single track line, and build a fence between the tracks and trail? Would a single track be sufficient?

AFAICR it costs over a million dollars a mile to replace a rail line, to freight standards. Slow freight. Having it certified for high speed passenger use will easily double that.

We're talking a L O T of money...

Mike Spinelli

- --- On Tue, 1/6/09, ERIE LACKAWANNA <erie_lackawanna_@_yahoo.com> wrote:

From: ERIE LACKAWANNA <erie_lackawanna_@_yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: (erielack) Extended Commuter Service
To: "EL Mail List" <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 10:29 AM

Always saw in any rail line ripped up and then proposed back to Trails To Rails, it is never this and gone forever with rail Never relaid. In case of mileage of Cut-off, this is a No No. That is what they have Route 80 for that sees more traffic than the Cut-Off!!
 
Jerome

- --- On Tue, 1/6/09, Montgomery, Edward T <Edward.Montgomery_@_fcps.edu> wrote:

From: Montgomery, Edward T <Edward.Montgomery_@_fcps.edu>
Subject: RE: (erielack) Extended Commuter Service
To: eldispatcher72_@_yahoo.com, "EL Mail List" <erielack@lists.railfan.net>
Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 9:51 AM

Well, it does have a lot to do with whether funding for the restoration
of the cut-off is ever carried out.  That is why I advocate some form of
agreement with NS to develop freight traffic to justify re-establishing
the line.  If New Jersey is serious about this, then they should be
looking for some kind of business/state arrangement to justify
reinstating the rail line.

Ed Montgomery 


    

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