Morris&Essex
Train Attendant
- Joined
- Feb 15, 2003
- Messages
- 56
I saw a strange sight in an NJT consist today. I was walking out of the Dunkin Donuts on Rt. 53 in Denville as I heard a train behind the shopping center. I looked down the tracks and watched it travel away from me towards Morris Plains. In the center of it was a car totally painted over with an advertisement kind of like those ugly Lakeland busses from a few years ago. Since it was totally covered in a wild paint scheme and was moving away from me, my guess is that it was a new Comet (V?); I couldn't discern what the advertisement was. I didn't think NJT's rolling mish-mashes could look any worse, but I was mistaken. :angry: I just hope that maybe the car was for some special purpose and not some advertisement after all. I saw this thing at 1:12 pm on 3/19 in Denville.
Another peeve I have with NJT was a recent trip I took from Clifton on the Main line to Philadelphia via Secaucus. Even though there is now automatic ticket machines in Clifton, and I can plan a door-to-door itinerary on NJT's web site, I can't get a SEPTA ticket from Clifton. Even worse, I couldn't make my SEPTA purchase in Secaucus even though it's possible in Newark Penn and NY Penn. Naturally, the SEPTA machine in Trenton was out of order, and I had to buy my ticket on the SEPTA train. Thankfully the SEPTA conductor gave me a break and didn't tack on the surcharge or lecture me about buying tix aboard the train or else I would have thrown a tantrum. :angry:
Another peeve I have with NJT was a recent trip I took from Clifton on the Main line to Philadelphia via Secaucus. Even though there is now automatic ticket machines in Clifton, and I can plan a door-to-door itinerary on NJT's web site, I can't get a SEPTA ticket from Clifton. Even worse, I couldn't make my SEPTA purchase in Secaucus even though it's possible in Newark Penn and NY Penn. Naturally, the SEPTA machine in Trenton was out of order, and I had to buy my ticket on the SEPTA train. Thankfully the SEPTA conductor gave me a break and didn't tack on the surcharge or lecture me about buying tix aboard the train or else I would have thrown a tantrum. :angry: