RE: (erielack) The Piermont Branch/Erie Gauging

["Gripp, William \[NCSUS\]" <"WGRIPP_@_NCSUS.JNJ.COM">]

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	From:  Michael Dye [SMTP:"luxpan_@_hotmail.com"]
	Sent:  Saturday, January 15, 2000 7:55 PM
	To:  "erielack_@_internexus.net"
	Subject:  Re: (erielack) The Piermont Branch/Erie Gauging

	Of course, there was good and bad to this gauging decision. Good:
The Erie 
	was the preferred high/wide routing in the East, as nobody could
compete 
	with their clearances. 


	This was a side effect of the decision in later years.  Back in the
early days, the DL&W was 6' gauge also.  They ended in Hampton, NJ at the
CNJ interchange and the CNJ had a 3rd rail from Hampton to E'port so there
were two routes for 6' gauge traffic/high and wides to NY.  Of course the
DL&W later took over the M&E and the interchange at Hampton dribbled to
nothing eventually.
	

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