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NJ Transit is in talks with Philadelphia-based Conrail to lease a rail yard in Linden that would shelter rail cars and locomotives during a destructive weather event like Sandy, agency officials said Thursday.
Spokesman John Durso, Jr. acknowledged the talks are the result of the severe hit NJ Transit's rolling stock took when 323 pieces of rail equipment were left in a Hoboken rail yard and at a maintenance complex in Kearny - both of which flooded, costing at least $100 million in damage. The agency has faced a torrent of criticism over their decision to leave equipment in the flood-prone yards after weather predictions and climate change reports warned the yards were in danger of flooding from storm surges.
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