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Re: (erielack) ES99/SE98

With a 10 mph speed on the High Bridge branch, how long did it take for the
"ES/SE" trains to travel from E-port to Scranton?  I read that CNJ had a
few derailments on the branch.  Did they make any improvements on it when
the Scranton freights began running there?  I never really understood the
need for CNJ to give up there Pennsylvania operation.  LV seemed to like
their grades better abandoning a lot of their mainline in favor of the CNJ.
 I do remember a New York bank was frustrated with the performance of CNJ
and desired to liquidate the property to get what they could out of it.
 They probably should have been molded in to the MARC-EL plan spinning all
commuter operations off to another agency.  Ultimately I guess that
happened through CR and then CSX and NS taking over properties.  The CSX
heritage with CNJ goes back to when the B&O alliance controlled Reading and
CNJ.  Interesting to see how things finally turned out.

Ed Montgomery


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