From: grammatim@verizon.net   
      
   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.)   
      
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