Regarding this post: > Here is some data about scale track lengths and capacities. > This is from > the "Directory of Industries and Facilities, 1952" for the Lackawanna. > > 1) Secausus, NJ: 50 feet, 200 tons capacity > 2) Paterson, NJ: 50 feet, 150 tons capacity > 3) Harrison, NJ: 50 feet, 150 tons capacity > 4) Port Morris, NJ: 50 feet, 150 tons capacity > 5) Phillipsburg, NJ: 38 feet, 100 tons capacity > 6) Oxford Furnance, NJ: 44 feet, 100 tons capacity > 7) Nazareth, PA: 54 feet, 150 tons capacity > 8) Portland, PA: 54 feet, 167 tons capacity > 9) Gouldsburg, PA: 54 feet, 150 tons capacity, with dead rail > 10) Scranton, PA: 50 feet, 167 tons capacity > 11) Scranton, PA: (at storehouse): 44 feet, 150 tons > capacity, with dead > rail > 12) Scranton, PA: (Keyser Valley Shop): 54 feet, 150 tons > capacity, with > dead rail > 13) Kingston, PA: 50 feet, 160 tons capacity > 14) Bloomsburg, PA: 54 feet, 167 tons capacity > 15) Binghamton, NY: 54 feet, 167 tons capacity > 16) Elmira, NY: 65 feet, 167 tons capacity Is this meant to be a complete listing? I know that there was a scale track in the West Boonton yard for weiging wastewater tankcars that has been there since at least the 1940's.... - Paul ------------------------------------------------------------ Visit the erielack photopage at http://el-list.railfan.net ------------------------------
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