Scott did a great job of explaining the highways to use to follow the Old Road. One additional site of interest is as you are leaving Oxford just railroad west of where theOxford Furance station once stood a quarry railroad crossed the state highway and interchanged with the DLW. Where the Warren County trash and recycle site is today used to be a limestone quarry that supplied the rock for the Edison Cement plant at New Village. The story I remember from old family gatherings was the Lackawanna had flat cars on which there where two metal boxes. These where filled at the quarry with limestone. On arrival at New Village the boxes where lifted off the flat cars and dumped. They then where returned to the cars to go back to Oxford Furance. Does anyone out there have photos of these cars? The book Railroads of Northwest Jersey also write of this operation, but no photos of the limestone cars. Bob Stafford ------------------------------------------------------------ Visit the erielack photopage at http://el-list.railfan.net ------------------------------
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