![]() ![]() On both sides of the Hudson around New York City, and from Philadelphia outward in Pennsylvania, the local trains were sitting still. (Conrail) was forced to stop running local passenger trains, and the new state-sponsored operators had not yet worked out the rules by which the trains would run. When that happened, Consolidated Rail Corp. The trains that normally carried the “9-to-5 army” of commuters, along with other riders at other times, were all sitting in their yards. Otherwise, what was (and still is) the nation’s busiest passenger railroad line stood empty and silent. The only passenger trains running along much of Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor (NEC) were operated by Amtrak itself. RAILWAY AGE, APRIL 2023 ISSUE: Imagine going back 40 years to early 1983. Heritage schemes: New Jersey Transit ALP45-DP 4519 in Erie-Lackawanna colors and GP40PH 4109 in its original Jersey Central Lines livery at Millburn, N.J., on the Morris & E$ssex Line. LA Metro Sets Opening Date for Regional Connector.Unveiled: Project Connect’s First Phase Alignment. ![]() People News: Valley Metro, Railroad Software.FRA Issues NPRM to Amend Passenger Equipment Safety Standards (UPDATED May 25).Transit Briefs: NYMTA, MARTA, SMART, VTA/BART, Miami-Dade County/Brightline.Transit Briefs: CATS, LACMTA, MTA Metro-North, SacRT, TriMet.Amtrak Launches All-New Acela First Class Dining Menu.Transit Briefs: Amtrak, GO Transit, NNEPRA, VRE, WMATA.GDC Shortlists Three Hudson Tunnel Project Teams. ![]()
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