New Jersey's Troubled Trains are Older than Many of the Riders

[John Ashworth]

N.J. Transit’s Most Troubled Trains Are Older Than Many of the Riders

The railroad will be stuck with passenger cars that were built in the 1970s for at least three more years...

The coaches, known as Arrow IIIs, are the oldest passenger cars in daily use by any commuter railroad in the New York metropolitan area. They are single-deck cars, introduced when the railroad was carrying far fewer riders. In the late 1970s, New Jersey Transit carried about 70,000 passengers each weekday; today, its weekday ridership exceeds 310,000...