Comments on: Tuesday Tour of the Port Jervis Line: Suffern

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 07:33:00 +0000

I use to go to Ramapo College so I could either take the NJ Transit from Mahwah or Suffern. But just to let Emily know, whenever a train does travel past Suffern there will be at least one or two passenger cars and one engine pulling the train that will have the markings of MTA Metro North.

I would assume that is part of the contract between the MTA of NY And NJ Transit sharing the rails.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 03:57:04 +0000

In reply to Old Geezer. never noticed the familarity of taste between twinkees and avon lip stick, nor do i want to think about it.....

By: Old Geezer

Old Geezer — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:58:14 +0000

I don’t know about Twinkies, but Suffern used to be the home of Avon lipstick. At one time I worked at the Avon HQ in Manhattan and we looked into improving the telephone system at the Suffern facility. Well, it’s tough (and expensive) to rewire an old building where some of the interior walls are 2-feet thick of solid stone.

Kind of like the problems with some old railroad stations.

Avon manufacturing ceased there in 2002, but I was already gone from Avon at the time. But I still think of the lipstick production line when I drive by on the Thruway.

By: mike

mike — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:52:46 +0000

had to look him up myself, tho, but young and beauty seems to suit you, perhaps in what is your field now tho, you might find a sack of 40 mill, left in clues easy carried away from corporate mismanagement, but Mz Emily CEO President of neo twinkee Company, the way things go, might be the employments i need soon enough, Elliot lived in the hills overlooking the valley desert I live in lately….with no am track anymore…..

By: Emily

Emily — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:23:41 +0000

In reply to mike. Mike, did they give you a day pass to go to the internet cafe? I'm only kidding, you crack me up though. I think I'm too young to know who Elliot Roosevelt was, so I had to look him up. I was six when he died :P

By: mike

mike — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 05:29:32 +0000

unpaid taxes on rail can open a large can of worms…reminding me oddly of Eliot Roosevelt…………….gone missing like twinkees…

By: mike

mike — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 05:14:18 +0000

In reply to Emily.

have seen the cost of rail is 5 million a mile….quite a lot of recycled tin cans to get a spur line in… not enough rock…?,, 5200 feet apx not to long length seeable tho….

By: Adam Moss

Adam Moss — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:13:58 +0000

In reply to Emily. They do not own the tracks until Hillburn Yard. NJ Transit owns up to Hillburn Yard. 2800 riders a year is not enough to justify it either.

By: Emily

Emily — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:40:38 +0000

In reply to Tyler. You're right... Norfolk Southern runs freight on here (I believe they own the tracks as well). But if that weren't the case, I don't know if there is enough ridership to justify it. Anyways, I like the mini high platforms. They are cute :P

By: Tyler

Tyler — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:58:56 +0000

Does this line handle any freight traffic? That could explain the mini-highs.

In Boston, these platforms have a removable edge about eight inches deep that allow the passage of oversized freight loads. My home line (Worcester) is shared with CSX and can’t have full high platforms installed because of the time that would have to be spent removing and later reinstalling this edging.

The other more obvious option is simply insufficient ridership to justify improvements, and/or a lack of money.