Re: (erielack) Conrail Erail

[Jedalberg_@_aol.com]

The ERail terminal was builtby K-Line on the old CNJ Eport car shops after we 
leased them the property. Originally it was to have six tracks but only four 
were built, for various reasons. The original deal was a thirty year lease,in 
three 10-year renewable increments. We signed the deal up in K-Line' offices 
on the 98th floor of 2WTC, or rather, L. Stanley Crane signed for us--he said 
to me ".. Jim, you witness this, you did the deal...", kind of a neat memory!  
I do not know what the current arrangement is between K-Line and NS, although 
I could make a pretty good guess.
The Portside terminal was CNJ, built to handle container traffic over, 
naturally, the port!.It actually became PANYNJ property in the early 80s as part of 
the Hack River (bridge) Agreement.  Just north of Portside, over the creek 
dividing Port Elizabeth from Port Newark, was what was known as the PCIT. During 
my era, it was mostly used to store/park autos, sometimes containers, but not 
used as an intermodal facility, although we had ideas combining PS and PCIT 
into a big intermodal terminal. PS was strictly international- remember it is PA 
property, though that doesn't mean that occasional domestic loads didn't get 
into the place by accident. Outbound domestic just plain wouldn't be accepted 
at the gate. Anyway the shippers and draymen all knew where to take which 
loads.
The PS operation was made moot by the startup of the on-dock operation at 
Maher in '90-91, and you know how that has expanded-and continues to do so. The 
area of PS/PC is now occupied by the staging tracks for the on-dock facility. 
Our best year at PS was about 60-65K lifts; Maher several years ago was around 
280K, and I think the build-out will handle upwards of 600K. They will need it 
all.
Jim


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