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New England Motor Freight, Inc. (NEMF) was a unionized less-than-truckload (LTL) and truckload freight carrier, based in Elizabeth, New Jersey. It was one of the largest LTL carriers in the US Northeast when it entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2019 and subsequently shut down all operations in 2020.
Lehigh and New England Railroad (LNE) Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad (BLE), owned by Canadian National Railway [ 35 ] Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad ( reporting mark BG ), incorporated by interests of the Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad , later merged with the Tonopah and Tidewater and the Las Vegas and Tonopah .
The new route would have only 15 curves – 42 fewer curves than the Old Road, the equivalent of more than four complete circles of curvature – which increased speeds and decreased running time – more so for freight, but for passenger trains as well. The ruling grade was cut in half from 1.1% to 0.55%. [2]
As of 2023 there are just four American owned Class I freight railroad companies and one passenger railroad company (Amtrak). The list also includes two Canadian-owned Class I freight railroads, both of which have trackage in the US, and one, CPKC, has trackage in Mexico.
Infrequent freight service continued for a short while but, as of 1995, there was no freight service on the line. [ 6 ] The refurbished Poughkeepsie Bridge, originally opened on January 1, 1889 with a total length of 6,768 feet and a height above the Hudson of 212 feet, is now a New York State Park, Walkway Over The Hudson , completed in 2009.
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Canada’s two major freight railroads have shut their operations, according to management of the two companies, locking out 9,000 members of the Teamsters union who operate the trains and dealing ...
Cars waiting on Hoffman Station Road as a freight train on the Freehold Secondary goes by in Monroe Township, 2023. In 1976, Conrail took over the operations of seven northeastern railroads, including the Penn Central, who operated the line after the 1968 merger of the Pennsylvania and the New York Central Railroad. During consolidation of ...