From: grammatim@verizon.net   
      
   On Sunday, April 7, 2019 at 9:33:11 AM UTC-4, houn...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:   
   > On 07.04.19 2:07, Peter T. Daniels wrote:   
   > > On Saturday, April 6, 2019 at 7:03:10 PM UTC-4, houn...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:   
      
   > >> I know that there are aspirations to restore service between New York   
   > >> and Binghamton via the Lackawanna Cut-Off. Has anything happened with   
   > >> that over the past 12 months?   
   > >> AIAUI, Amtrak undertook a preliminary study on the resumption of   
   > >> passenger service on the Southern Tier, perhaps to Buffalo, also via the   
   > >> Lackawanna Cut-Off and Binghamton. Any movement on that? My guess is no,   
   > >> under the current Administration.   
   > >> Erie Lackawanna ran service to Chicago out of Hoboken via that route   
   > >> until early 1970, it turns out, but I thought that EL also ran passenger   
   > >> trains to Binghamton via Port Jervis. When did that end?   
   > >> The Southern Tier line's route between Port Jervis and Binghamton --   
   > >> extremely curvy and full of speed restrictions, if not down to   
   > >> restricted -- make the resumption of passenger service between those two   
   > >> points to reach New York time-consuming and thus highly unlikely. Has   
   > >> MTA/NJT/PennDOT considered introducing some sort of regional rail   
   > >> service between Binghamton and Port Jervis, however, or even extending   
   > >> the Port Jervis Line at least a couple of stations west?   
   > >> I'm not talking about the proposal to build out to Stewart, which I   
   > >> think is already dead.   
   > > Rail service to Ithaca ceased, I was told, the year before I started at   
   > > Cornell, which was 1968. (It was an unpleasant 4 1/2 hour bus ride, with   
   > > a rest stop in Binghamton. There was a little JFK Memorial across the   
   > > street from the Binghamton bus station. Usually the driver would let   
   > > students off at Collegetown, maybe a half mile walk from many of the   
   > > dorms, rather than making us stay on to the bus depot, which was on the   
   > > other side of town and necessitated a 25c cab ride back to campus.)   
   > >   
   > I don't think that Ithaca is on the Southern Tier.   
      
   Where do you think it is, and where do you suppose its rail connection   
   came from?   
      
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