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As we welcome 2026, we enter the nation’s 250th anniversary year, and for many of us it is way different than we ever expected. The Coalition’s hometown of Millburn is honoring the nation’s birth with a mural made of wooden tiles painted by nonprofit groups in the municipality. We were honored to be given a…

Lackawanna Coalition goes to Port Jervis

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Webweaver

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On Saturday 11 October 2025, a group of Lackawanna Coalition members took the train to Port Jervis, New York. We decided upon this date as the leaves will have started to change, weather should be decent, it is the last open weekend for the Port Jervis rail museum. We will have three hours to see…

Report from the Chair (Nov-Dec 2025)

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Sally Jane Gellert

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Late in October, we learned of a Millburn project honoring the country’s 250th birthday, and were pleased to be offered a chance to participate in the planned municipal celebration with a block in a commemorative tile mural. With short notice, through nobody’s fault but our own (we have noted that we need to work on…

Getting Around Union County on Transit

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David Peter Alan

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Union County is essentially the northernmost county in Central Jersey and, from outward appearances, it seems to be rich in transit. The Morris & Essex Line serves Summit between its namesake counties, the Gladstone Branch goes to 3 stations west of there before leaving the county, Northeast Corridor and North Jersey Coast Line trains stop…

“Boonton Scoot” Runs, but without M&E Connections

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David Peter Alan

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Sunday, September 28 was Boonton Day, with a street fair on Main Street and, perhaps more important to rail fans, the United Railway Historical Society (URHS) held their annual “Railroad Museum for a Day” event at their yard and shop facility in town. The event is normally accessible only to motorists, because NJ Transit’s Boonton…

NJ Transit and its Riders Endure Brief Work Stoppage by Engineers

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David Peter Alan

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New Jersey Transit’s rail riders got through four days without their trains, due to a work stoppage called by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET), the union representing the engineers who drive the trains. Despite strong rhetoric by both sides leading up to the work stoppage (including from NJ Transit CEO Kris Kolluri…

Remembering Kingsland Station (1870-2025)

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David Peter Alan

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Saturday, June 7 was a cloudy day with rain showers; appropriate weather for the last day of service at a station that had served its community for 154½ years. Trains on NJ Transit’s “Main Line” stopped at Kingsland for the last time, as service ended early Sunday morning; the end of Saturday’s service day. …

Report from the Chair (Sept/Oct)

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Sally Jane Gellert

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This fall has been relatively quiet transitwise in New Jersey so far; we made comments to the New Jersey Transportation Planning Authority (NJTPA) on their 2050 plan; we were pleased to see a response not only from the NJTPA but also from NJ Transit itself. We had called for passing sidings on all single-track lines,…

Two Unrelated Events at Penn Station on the Same Day

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David Peter Alan

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