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(erielack) Hog (sic) Mountian Branch DLW

I sent this to Gary Kazin before I knew of this list

Tom Taber in his Lackawanna book mentioned a Hog Mountain branch in
Boonton and Montville NJ that ran between ~1900 and ~1925, serving a
quarry on a steep grade.

I believe this was not a Lackawanna branch but a short line built and
run by the quarry or construction company that was building the Jersy
City reservoir that now covers the site of Old Boonton.

It connected with the Boonton Line about a mile west of Boonton.  The
line ran north up the west side of the valley to the west of Turkey
Mountain, crossed Taylortown Road just west of the right angle turn and
then had a switchback up the side of Turkey Mountain where I guess the
quarry was.  The right of way appears to be now Capstick Road and a
private road.

The line crossed the Boonton Branch on a bridge, the abutments of which
can still be seen where Rte. 202 bends near the tracks and the tracks
went SSW to the dam site.

The Montville Historical Soc. has pictures of the operations.

bob gillis



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