October 14th 2007
Update: The deadline for advance registration by postal mail has passed. But you can still come to the meeting:
You must act now if you want to save $10 by registering for NJ-ARP’s annual meeting in advance. The cost is $30 when registering in advance by postal mail, and $40 at the door. […]
October 9th 2007
This morning in Garfield, a woman driving a minivan with a 4 year-old child in it went around the lowered crossing gates and collided with a Bergen County Line train. Sound familiar? There must be some special attraction between women+minivans+kids and trains, much like there is with tornados and trailer parks. At […]
September 22nd 2007
The registration form (64 KB PDF) for the NJ-ARP 2007 annual meeting is now available online. The meeting will be held on Sunday, Oct. 21, at Fiddleheads Restaurant, 27 East Railroad Avenue, Jamesburg.
Note that NJ-ARP members will be receiving copies of the form in the US mail, along with ballots for the NJ-ARP Board […]
September 15th 2007
Jeffrey G. Otteau, president of the Otteau Appraisal Group in East Brunswick, N.J., picked out the pattern while analyzing the unsold housing inventory in towns on and around the commuter rail lines into New Jersey. Communities directly on the rail lines and fairly close to the city, like Maplewood, Montclair and Chatham, tend to have […]
September 11th 2007
NJ-ARP’s web server will be upgraded on Wednesday, September 12. We hope everything will go smoothly, but there’s always the possibility of some problems. In particular, there may be problems with the Blog, calendar, Hotline index, RSS feeds, and site search.
We’ll be monitoring the site, and we’ll work to fix any problems as […]
September 8th 2007
In Hammond, Ind., last Saturday, a 32 year-old woman with four children in her minivan attempted to beat a freight train to a grade crossing. Although she beat the train, she apparently didn’t notice another freight train approaching from the opposite direction. Her minivan collided with the second train. The minivan then […]
August 10th 2007
I just found out about an article from two weeks ago regarding a proposal to create a line similar to the River Line from Flemington to Bound Brook, with a connection to the Raritan Valley Line. This could help reduce traffic on Route 202, which was the scene of an 8-vehicle fatal accident on […]
July 14th 2007
The New York Transit Museum’s Nostalgia Train will be making three trips this year. The train consists of vintage R1/9 cars, which were built between the 1930s and the 1940s.
The three trips are as follows:
Sunday, July 22, an afternoon/evening trip to Rockaway Park
Sunday, August 12, a daytime trip to Coney Island, including a guided […]
June 15th 2007
Just a quick note that the NJ-ARP Board of Directors meeting for this Saturday, June 16, has been canceled.
