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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.
A Phoebe Snow poster showing the Pequest Fill on the new New Jersey Cut-Off, 11 miles (18 km) shorter than the old route The Cut-Off was a scenic highlight for passenger trains. Early in the 20th century, the DL&W's woman in white, Phoebe Snow , was featured in a poster that touted the new line and the Pequest Fill .
The New England Central Railroad main line runs from New London, Connecticut, to Alburgh, Vermont, at the Canada–US border, a distance of 366 miles (589 km). [1] Several short branch lines bring the company's total trackage to 384 miles. [2] Primary sources of traffic include lumber, metals, chemicals, and crushed stone.
In July 2022, a Presidential Emergency Board was convened under the Railway Labor Act by President Joe Biden. [11] His Executive order stated, "I have been notified by the National Mediation Board that in its judgment these disputes threaten substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree that would deprive a section of the country of essential transportation service."
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Cars waiting on Hoffman Station Road as a freight train on the Freehold Secondary goes by in Monroe Township. 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 redundant ...
American Freight Locations (This story has been updated with new information) This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: American Freight to close all 328 stores: 'Everything is on sale'
The P&W operated independently until 1888, when the New York, Providence and Boston Railroad (NYP&B) leased it; four years later, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad obtained the lease when it purchased the NYP&B. The P&W continued to exist as a company, as special rules protecting minority shareholders made it prohibitively expensive ...