See Scenic New Jersey By Train

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
12/09/2019 at 12:07 • Filed to: None

T o be fair, not all of it is like this. But a lot of it is.

DISCUSSION (21)

facw > ttyymmnn
12/09/2019 at 12:14

You can see why they call it T he Garden State...

ranwhenparked > ttyymmnn
12/09/2019 at 12:15

Well, properties abutting train tracks are not usually that desirable for something other than industrial or heavy commercial use, and New Jersey is getting to be more of a postindustrial state.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > ttyymmnn
12/09/2019 at 12:15

Judging places by rail can be tough. Shittier places typically are placed near railways.

ttyymmnn > facw
12/09/2019 at 12:17

You should see the tire gardens they've planted along the tracks.

Aremmes > ttyymmnn
12/09/2019 at 12:18

Don’t worry, you’ll soon be able to breathe the fresh air around Bridesburg and Port Richmond in Philly. Oh, and the zoo. And the Marcus Hook refinery. And the Dupont plant in Wilmington. It’s breathtaking.

ttyymmnn > ranwhenparked
12/09/2019 at 12:18

I know I’m not being entirely fair. We passed some forested areas just south of Newark that were quite nice. A dreary wet day isn’t helping.

functionoverfashion > ttyymmnn
12/09/2019 at 12:19

My mother grew up on a dairy farm in New Jersey.

That is all

ttyymmnn > functionoverfashion
12/09/2019 at 12:19

I’m sure it was lovely. And not alongside urban train tracks. I’m not being entirely fair, I admit.

functionoverfashion > ttyymmnn
12/09/2019 at 12:26

Oh, I have no doubt that it was lovely, in the 1950's. Now it’s probably a cookie-cutter housing development with a name like “Farm Ridge” or whatever.

But also, much of what you see of NJ from the train - or the highway, especially close to NYC - is industrial wasteland.

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn
12/09/2019 at 12:32

That’s a gated community!

/corrugated

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn
12/09/2019 at 12:38

Traveling former East Germany by train, there was a lot either still diminished from the Communist period or still diminished from the 40s, even. Some sets of tracks with rust from disuse, some local stations with apparent Nazi era architecture and mostly or totally abandoned, unless I was mistaken. From the Soviet times, big concrete Plattenbauen with visible decay...

Even in former East Berlin, there were some of the Bismarck era housing buildings with bomb damage and the like still. In 2009.

benn454 > ttyymmnn
12/09/2019 at 12:42

America's Armpit

Nom De Plume > ttyymmnn
12/09/2019 at 12:53

New Yorker’s pessimism has long been attributed to the light at the end of the tunnel being a barrel fire in New Jersey.

ranwhenparked > functionoverfashion
12/09/2019 at 12:53

Or Th e Estates at the Reserve at Olde Pointe Farms

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > ttyymmnn
12/09/2019 at 13:06

Not enough radioactive swamps, juiced out italians, nor bro trucks pictured

thejustache > functionoverfashion
12/09/2019 at 13:42

You’re speaking truth. My mother grew up next to her grandmother’s farm in NJ, and I was actually born there. By the time I was old enough to remem ber anything, the farm land was sold off to become Bell Labs offices and a school. Most of the land around there is housing developments with names exactly like that now.