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RE: (erielack) Restaurants to watch trains from

Alas, my favorite was Fricke's in Ridgefield Park.  Right on the Overpeck
Creek and next to the NYC/NYS&W bridge there.  They had very good seafood
and as a kid I used to love to get a seat with a window view.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary R. Kazin [mailto:gkazin_@_yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 10:34 AM
> To: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
> Subject: Re: (erielack) Restaurants to watch trains from
> 
> 
> From: "Steven W.kay" <stevekay_@_csnet.net>
> > For those of you who may have mixed emotions about various train
> watching venues might I suggest "Lotsa Pasta" in the Upper Montclair
> station (Erie Greenwood Lake Branch). Not only will you get 
> to see "Lotsa
> Trains" but you will be so close to the action (due to the 
> outdoor eating
> area) that your dinner will be liberally coated with diesel 
> exhaust and
> brake shoe smoke (forget the parmesan cheese and garlic powder).
> 
> > With the crossings of Bellevue and Lorraine streets bracketing the
> station you will always know when the next train is coming so as to be
> able to grab your camera in time to get that great shot of 
> your plate of
> pasta rumbling toward the edge of the table.
> 
> > The grade is up hill westbound so you can record those 
> great sounds of
> turbocharged 645s dragging the train out of the station 
> toward Mountain
> Ave.
> 
> > I have no idea about the quality of the food but with the 
> afternoon rush
> hour pounding by, who cares.....8>)
> 
> 
> Of course there is also the Dover station.  The restaurant in 
> the Mountain
> Lakes station has reopened (upscale, though), and I think it has an
> outdoor dining area.  Mt Tabor has the Rattlesnake Ranch, 
> with an outdoor
> area facing the grade crossing.
> 
> =====
> Gary R. Kazin
> DL&W Milepost R35.7
> Rockaway, New Jersey
> 
> New Jersey Transit - THE WAY TO GO!!!
> 
> (I have no affiliation with New Jersey Transit.)
> 

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