I just read an article in the Star Ledger about a new transfer station built on the old Erie Greenwood Lake branch between Riverdale and Pequannock. Actually it is in Pequannock but Riverdale has decided to fight it. A short history: low level material was shipped to WR Grace and Co., or maybe a company that operated at the same spot as WR Grace. Anyway, this material was dropped off at a siding next to the Pompton Plains station and offloaded onto trucks for a drive of about 2 miles to the factory located in Wayne, NJ. Now, time marches on and the factory is empty and declared a super fund site, as is the siding in Pompton Plains. More time goes by and the Federal government has the money to process the thorium tainted soil. Back to today, trucks are carrying this soil from Wayne, NJ to Utah. However, it seems that the contractor believes the most economical way to ship is by rail, read NYS&W. Riverdale has stated that they do not want this cargo to pass through their town. Now the irony of the whole store is that if this transfer station were built about 1/2 mile further east, it would be at the original delivery site! The world works in funny ways. Roy W. Scheckermann ------------------------------------------------------------ Visit the erielack photopage at http://el-list.railfan.net ------------------------------ End of Erielack Digest V2 #25 ***************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to "majordomo_@_internexus.net" with the command unsubscribe erielack-digest in the BODY of the message. To switch to the regular version of the list, include the command subscribe erielack as the second line in the e-mail described above.
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