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(erielack) Tower Designations

Hi gang-

Here's what I did!  I went to George Elwood's web site and picked off all
the listed tower designations from one of the latest stings on this list.
I then took some old timetables (EL New York Division #4 dated 10/28/62 and
EL #1 New York & Scranton Divisions dated 10/25/64) and tried to piece
together their locations, miles from Hoboken, Divisions and branches to
complete the list from the east side of the EL at least.  

Here's what I got.  Lots of blanks to fill in and those on the west end I
will leave to the western experts.  There are quite a few missing in the
New York State area, too.  If anybody can fill in the blanks, PLEASE DO!

In addition, I question the validity of some of the list.  Is this just
TOWER Designations or is it station call letters also???  Someone (with
knowledge) look at the Morris & Essex Division and also the Scranton
Division and tell me whether or not the listed ones are towers or stations
or a mix of both???

Tower	Miles  	Division	Branch     	Description
       from
     Hoboken
  GL	2.9	New York	Greenwood Lake Branch     Greenwood Lake Branch Junction
 DB 	4.2	New York	Greenwood Lake Branch     DrawBridge (swingspan on the
NY&GL in Secaucus, NJ) 
 GA 	16.3	New York	Greenwood Lake Branch     Great Notch 
 ??	27.8	New York	Greenwood Lake Branch     Pompton Junction
 HE	0	New York	Mainline	     HobokEn Terminal
 WD 	1.92	New York	Mainline	     West End 
 BT 	3.1	New York	Mainline	     Bergen Tower. 
 HX 	5.6	New York	Mainline	     Hackensack Xing (drawbridge just west of
Croxton, NJ) 
 BJ 	8.9	New York	Bergen County Line Bergen Junction. 
 BT 	13.8	New York	Bergen County Line   CoalBerg JcT Tower(Passaic Jct), 
 XW	14.9	New York	Mainline	     Paterson Yard
 WJ 	20.2	New York	Mainline	     Ridgewood Jct. - ridgeWood Junction? 
 WC 	23.5	New York	Mainline	     Waldwick - Waldwick Crossovers? 
 SF 	30.9	New York	Mainline	     SuFfern 
 NJ 	44.9	New York	Mainline	     Newburgh Junction. 
 MQ 	79.4	New York	Mainline	     Campbell Hall... 
 PO 	87.2	New York	Mainline	     POrt Jervis 
 KW 	??	New York	Mainline	     Croxton, east end... 
 JY 	??	New York	Mainline	     Hoboken dispatcher's office. 
 OS 	??	New York	Mainline	     Jersey City on the east side of the Bergen
Cut. 
 NX 	7.79	New York	Morris & Essex Division	     Newark 
  RI 	9.02	New York	Morris & Essex Division	     Roseville 
  A 	11.46	New York	Morris & Essex Division	     Orange 
  C 	13.85	New York	Morris & Essex Division	     South Orange 
 MP 	15.15	New York	Morris & Essex Division	     Maplewood 
 MN 	16.76	New York	Morris & Essex Division	     Millburn 
 ST 	20.11	New York	Morris & Essex Division	     Summit 
 CH 	23.58	New York	Morris & Essex Division	     Chatham 
 MA 	25.53	New York	Morris & Essex Division	     Madison 
 CN 	27.69	New York	Morris & Essex Division	     Convent 
 RD 	29.79	New York	Morris & Essex Division	     Morristown 
 MX 	32.00	New York	Morris & Essex Division	     Morris Plains 
  V 	36.59	New York	Morris & Essex Division	     Denville 
 UD 	40.78	New York	Morris & Essex Division	     Dover 
 CU 	43.93	New York	Morris & Essex Division	     Chester Jct (Succasunna is
"SA") 
 UN 	48.4	New York	Morris & Essex Division	     Port Morris (Netcong is "HO") 
 GN 	60.27	New York	Morristown Line	     Greendell 
 SJ 	76.98	New York	Morristown Line	     Slateford Jct (Portland is "WN") 
 WG 	77.88	New York	Morristown Line	     Water Gap 
 NX 	7.8	New York	Newark Branch	     Newark Crossing (drawbridge). 
 ??    39.9	New York	NJ & NY RR	     Nanuet Junction
 BR 	3.1	New York		            BeRgen Jct in Jersey City. 
 GR 	83.2	Scranton	Scranton Mainline	     Gravel Place 
  S 	84.22	Scranton	Scranton Mainline	     Stroudsburg 
 SG 	97.27	Scranton	Scranton Mainline	     Cresco 
  P 	102.96	Scranton	Scranton Mainline	     Mount Pocono 
 FN 	105.25	Scranton	Scranton Mainline	     Pocono Summit 
  A 	107.61	Scranton	Scranton Mainline	     Tobyhanna 
 GB 	112.88	Scranton	Scranton Mainline	     Goldsboro 
 GO 	117.36	Scranton	Scranton Mainline	     Lehigh 
 OW 	123.24	Scranton	Scranton Mainline	     Moscow 
 ND 	130.41	Scranton	Scranton Mainline	     Nay Aug 
  Z 	135.83	Scranton	Scranton Mainline	     Scranton (Station) 
 QN 	135.83	Scranton	Scranton Mainline	     Scranton (East End) 
 BD 	193.38	Scranton	Scranton Mainline	     Binghamton 
 YO		Scranton	Syracuse Branch	     Yard Office, Binghamton?? Bevier Street
		Scranton	Wyoming Branch	     West Junction
 HO 				     Horseheads. 
 SR 				     Susquehanna River? 
 OG 				     Owego (DL&W Ithaca Branch crossing Erie main) 
 HM 				     Highland Mills ? Junction to the original Newburgh Branch
through Mountainville (Station is a library) 
 RJ 				     Ringwood Junction..Junction of NYGL to Ringwood Branch 
 WC 				     West end of Salamanca Yard 
  ZY 				     South End Hornell Yard 
  Z 				     Grove Street Tower 
 WA 				     Analomink 
  V 				     Henryville 
 DU 				     Elmhurst 
 BK 				     Buckannon Jct - west end of Meadville YD 
 RU 				     Sterling Tower - OH 
 AC 				     Marion Tower - OH 
 WR 				     "Wabash River" - In Huntington, the EL crossed the Little
Wabash River. 
 GR 				     "Germany" Pershing, Indiana was named Germany prior to WW I. 
 DA 				     "Decatur" - Decatur... natch! 
 GS 				     Kingsland IN. 



If anybody can fill in the blanks, PLEASE DO!
Joe Jordan
mailto: "pamela_@_blast.net"
http://www.blast.net/pamela for the Jordan Comedy Network & Train Nut page

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