EE Broadway Local Posted November 7, 2010 Share #1 Posted November 7, 2010 A wonderful railroad city in Union County. If you've been to Elizabeth, have you seen The Elizabeth Arch on Broad Street, the Elizabeth S-curve, the railroad bridge at Elizabethtown Plaza and West Jersey Street, and the Elizabeth and North Elizabeth Stations? The Elizabeth Arch is :cool:. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B35 via Church Posted November 7, 2010 Share #2 Posted November 7, 2010 Yes, elizabeth has a large industrial component about the city... I've taken (NJT) 40 through its industrial parts & (NJT) 62 through some of the commercial & residential parts.... also been to jersey gardens & the IKEA out there on a few occasions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nexis4Jersey Posted November 7, 2010 Share #3 Posted November 7, 2010 Hopefully the PATH will one day extend Service to EWR and Midtown Elizabeth via the Gardens Mall. The ROW is still intact...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theaveragejoe Posted November 7, 2010 Share #4 Posted November 7, 2010 Yes I have both time when I was in New Jeresy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R110B Posted November 7, 2010 Share #5 Posted November 7, 2010 Wirelessly posted via (Mozilla/5.0 (Danger hiptop 4.6; U; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920) I've been past it and been at Edison NJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNIGHTRIDER3:16 Posted November 8, 2010 Share #6 Posted November 8, 2010 I saw the Elizabeth (NJT) station and at Amtrak speeds ,It was about 2 seconds:p but I did catch Marks and Ntrizzy 's pics and the station has potential Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metsfan Posted November 8, 2010 Share #7 Posted November 8, 2010 That S curve needs to be straightened out more or you can kiss improved speeds into the future goodbye. There is a stretch of unoccupied land directly west of the current ROW that amtrak could build a new embankment & bridge on. Union county college built a building too close to the ROW for there to be much improvement on that part of it, if they moved the ROW it would have to be on a viaduct vs embankment. - A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EE Broadway Local Posted November 10, 2010 Author Share #8 Posted November 10, 2010 Do you think the Acela loses time through the Elizabeth S-Curve? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pablo M 201 Posted November 10, 2010 Share #9 Posted November 10, 2010 Do you think the Acela loses time through the Elizabeth S-Curve? It does if you think about it, but they've factored it into the schedule along with some padding so folks don't get the impression the train is always late. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metsfan Posted November 11, 2010 Share #10 Posted November 11, 2010 The acela goes 80 through the S i believe, everything else goes 60 or slower due to non-tiltage. If it was straightened completely it would shave 10 minutes off, no need to slow into it or waste time accelerating out of it. They can't do that, all they can do, if/when they ever have the money, is make it a sweeping curve, this way you could use super-elevation to speed it up more. They could construct the new parts, new wires new towers etc then over a weekend or such take the old alignment out of service and put the new alignment into service. To avoid construction delays you could close broad street elizabeth (full name of station) have stops at north elizabeth instead & use shuttle bus to connect. - A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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