I tried to get more information from the NJT worker in charge of this vehicle and the task for which it was designed but while good natured he seemed to be taken back some, who is this guy with a camera interested in trains? I didn’t get all the details. It’s a mini water truck; the large plastic container on the truck bed contains water. Two trains were in the station, the vehicle was on the cement platform between the two trains. Cables were attached from the vehicle to both of the trains, and to the same portion of the train, mid-car. On viewing the picture it is apparent that one cable looks like an electric cable, the other “cable” is a water hose. The worker told me he was filling up the bathrooms with water. Both trains were the older models, not the new “blue” NJT trains, but reconditioned cars from Metro-North. I surmise that the cables were using electricity from one train to run the pump used to fill with water the bathroom tanks of the other. The time was morning, just after the rush hour, just another of the dozens of procedures necessary for a mass transit infrastructure to operate.
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