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[david l stricklin]

It seems to be to complicated to see rail service again from Binghamton to the City via the water gap. What is so tough about extending. From port jervis to binghamton then to scranton?
Does anyone remember thr earthquake in LA in the 90's? After thr quake it took a few DAYS to get the line open from palmdale south to LA. It was not expected to be an operating commutr line for years. The quake caused immediate action. Gravel was poured for platforms. It wasnt fancy..but it worked. It took DAYS, not years.
Get this service running from binghamton to the city then work on rebuilding the lackawanna thru NJ. A line from binghamton and a line from scranton, for the future would be great.
In southern cal, they have 2lines from the inland empire to LA. One from san. Bernardino....one from riverside.
LETS GET IT DONE
A route from binghamton now...connecting at pirt jervis...and a route from scranton over the old Dl&W. Maybe exstend it up to binghamton too.

[Phoebe Vet]

The route along the Delaware River has so many twists, turns, and steep grades that you could probably walk from Port Jervis to Binghamton faster than riding a train.

I have a scrap book full of pictures of Erie Lackawanna trains on the ground along that route.

[Deacon Don]

Sounds like a good idea, I remember riding Bingo to NY and down to Scranton when I was young, " a couple of years ago "

[Phoebe Vet]

As much as I would like to see Binghamton to NYC service via the old Lackawanna route through Scranton, I doubt there are enough potential passengers to make it work.  Perhaps if it continued on to SYR, or over to Elmira and up to ROC or BUF...

I wouldn't ride a train that followed the old Erie route along the Delaware River.  I attended to many accident investigations on that route.  The Middletown Record used to call them the "Weary Erie".