Team,
Exciting news!!!! The NYNJ MP15 from the NJ HiRailers is shipping!!! For those that ordered you should see them in the next few days.
Thank you all for your support of the NJ HiRailers and for your patience.
Be Safe.
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We still have a few reservations available for the special run NYNJ MP15 from the NJHirailers We ran three numbers each with their own unique sound file from the New York and New Jersey waterfront. We are very close to delivery of these engines in July. This is a Railking Scale engine with the MTH stock number of Cab No. 5102: 30-20692-1 and Cab No. 5103: 30-20693-1. Cab number 5101 is sold out. The price is The cost is $379.99 per engine, plus shipping (and tax for engines shipped to NJ).
A $250 deposit will be required and the balance will be invoiced when the engines are here. Paypal can be used by going to http://www.njhirailers.com/njhr-store If you would like to use check or money order I have attached an order form
New York Harbor was once bustling with tugboats pushing barges with railroad cars on them. Car float operations in New York harbor belonged to over 18 railroads. At their peak, the railroads had 3,400 employees operating small fleets of 323 car floats, 1,094 other barges, and 150 tugboats between New Jersey and New York City. The only surviving car float operation is operated by NYNJ Rail.
New York New Jersey Rail is a switching and terminal railroad that operates the only car float operation across New York Bay between Jersey City, New Jersey and Brooklyn, New York. It also operates the ex-Port Jersey switching operations and the Bush Terminal switching operations. Since mid-November 2008 it has been owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Since freight trains are not allowed in Amtrak's North River Tunnels, and the Poughkeepsie Bridge was closed in 1974, NYNJ Rail’s car floats are the only freight crossing the Hudson River south of the Alfred H. Smith Memorial Bridge which is 140 miles north of New York City. The added cost of that distance has helped the car float survive.
NYNJ Rail carries a wide range of goods including food, consumer goods, recyclables, building materials, scrap metal, lumber, plastic, and large steel beams. NYNJ Rail connects with CSX and Norfolk Southern in Jersey City and with the New York & Atlantic Railway and SBK South Brooklyn Railroad in Brooklyn.
