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   hounslow3@yahoo.co.uk to hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com   
   Re: extra SEPTA substitute service to Ph   
   17 May 15 00:45:16   
   
   On 16.05.15 19:35, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
   > On Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 12:50:06 PM UTC-4, houn...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:   
   >   
   >> It does prompt me to wonder, however, if this will do anything to prompt   
   >> any movement on reactivating the West Trenton Line to Bridgewater and   
   >> eventually on to Newark.   
   >   
   > No.   
   >   
   > NJT touched on it a few years ago and found an enthusiastic public response,   
   but there is no money.  I'm sure CSX doesn't want it.   
   >   
   > I was thinking that, for the emergency, NJT could've used its new dual-mode   
   locomotives to run a special service out of NY-Penn to either West Trenton or   
   all the way to Phila.  But that might have conflicted with CSX.   
      
   Exactly. Maybe if they paid a premium of some sort to CSX to give them   
   priority in incidents like the one that has occurred.   
      
   It would be nice if they had a contingency in place if the possibility   
   of one exists.   
      
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