New Jersey

In the early morning hours of Dec. 8, 1938, a 71-car westbound Pennsylvania Railroad freight train ground to a halt at the Grove Avenue crossing in Metuchen, N.J.

A newly formed Senate Select Committee will investigate will probe the “continuing failures of the troubled” N.J. Transit.

Fare evasion remains a constant problem for commuter railroads and transit agencies. The Erie Railroad once took legal action against a Montvale, N.J., woman who boarded a train and did not pay.