Conrail's Leigh Line (was Conrail TV-LT)
Sirsonic
Island Yard in Newark, New Jersey to Waverly,N.Y. The line orignaly went
to Buffalo, but Conrail abandoned that portion. The portion of the line
that gets used the most is the Oak Island-Allentown Section. In
Manville,N.J. the Ex-Rdg line to Philly breaks off. Bettwen Oak Island and
Allentown there are about 30 trains a day, with more on the section from
Oak Island to Manville. There are more qualifyied people to tell you of
the lines history as I know mainly of present operations. The Lehigh Line
also has one of the last operating towers on Conrail. NK tower is located
in Newark and controls the track from CP-Valley, the mouth of Oak Island
to CP-Aldene. This is a distance of about 7 miles. Also in that area run
New Jersey Transit commuter trains from Newark to Raritan. NK has a
bright future right now as does most of the Lehigh Line. NOTE: My quote
of the Lehigh Dispatcher does NOT represent the normal congestion on the
Lehigh Line, although it gets close somedays.
"Leigh Dispatcher to the OIPI,
your waiting for 7 at Potter"
Sirs...@aol.com M.P. 20.05 Conrail Lehigh Line
Co-Founder of RAVE
Charles P. Woolever
wrote:
> "Leigh Dispatcher to the OIPI,
> your waiting for 7 at Potter"
> Sirs...@aol.com M.P. 20.05 Conrail Leigh Line
I know what the **L E H I G H line** is but your sig says **L E I G H** ,
twice. I wanted to know if there was L E I G H line.
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Sirsonic
hurry. Please note that the error has been changed.
"Leigh Dispatcher to the OIPI,
your waiting for 7 at Potter"
Charles P. Woolever
wrote:
I wasn't picking on your spelling. We all d that. I was really interested
to know if it was a Conrail line I wasn't aware of. :-)
Charles
John Haynes
>In article <4eb7td$a...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, sirs...@aol.com (Sirsonic)
>wrote:
>> "Leigh Dispatcher to the OIPI,
>> your waiting for 7 at Potter"
>> Sirs...@aol.com M.P. 20.05 Conrail Leigh Line
>I know what the **L E H I G H line** is but your sig says **L E I G H** ,
>twice. I wanted to know if there was L E I G H line.
I thought I would add that 'your waiting' should be 'you're waiting' while
we're all concentrating on the spelling.
John
Sirsonic
errors.
"Leigh Dispatcher to the OIPI,
you're waiting for 7 at Potter"
Sirsonic
Louis Judice
: The Lehigh Line is Conrail's Ex-Lehigh Valley line. It runs from Oak
: Island Yard in Newark, New Jersey to Waverly,N.Y. The line orignaly went
: to Buffalo, but Conrail abandoned that portion. The portion of the line
: that gets used the most is the Oak Island-Allentown Section. In
: Manville,N.J. the Ex-Rdg line to Philly breaks off. Bettwen Oak Island and
: Allentown there are about 30 trains a day, with more on the section from
Maybe 30 trains a day, Oak Island-Manville on a good day! The Lehigh Line
on Mondays-Wednesdays can be a quiet place, especially in the middle of
the day. Traffic is usally heaviest at night and in the early morning.
CR's decision to lock D&H out of the stack train business to NYC by not
lowering (or raising) the Musconetcong Tunnel has taken trains off the
western end of the Lehigh Line and put them onto the Trenton Line (Manville
to West Trenton).
This is an interesting line with a great variety of trains, especially
with the Trenton Line now cleared for stacks. But if you come to watch
from say 10am to 4pm you could be in for a big disappointment!
PS. I live about 2 miles from the Musconetcong Tunnel and work about
1 mile from the New Market Detector...
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