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Re: (erielack) Pascack Valley / NJ&NY name change?



I remember taking coal up to Letchworth on the upper end job in early 1971.
I was fireing then, and the crew joked around calling the line the Mountain
Division. The high point of the trip was when we tore the awning off the
engine on a  tree.

Gordon

To reply take the 33  from the address
- ----- Original Message -----
From: <NJNYRR_@_aol.com>
To: <jjordan_@_blast.net>
Cc: "'Erie Lackwanna'" <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 10:05 PM
Subject: Re: (erielack) Pascack Valley / NJ&NY name change?


> In a message dated 12/7/2001 8:51:49 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> jjordan_@_blast.net writes:
>
>
> > By the end of 1939, all activity above the Woodbine
> > Yard was terminated (north, or westbound by timetable).
> >
> Passenger activity, yes.  There was freight activity as north as Theills
> (Letchworth siding) into the late 1940's early 1950's and as north as
Pomona
> into the Erie Lackawanna days into the late 1960's.  I have no idea when
the
> track north of Woodbine was finally torn up, though.
>
> Does anyone have a diagram of the Woodbine yard showing the through track?
>
>
> Michael Sheehy
> NJ & NY RR/ Erie Milepost JC 34 "Summit Park Station"
>
> Homepages: hometown.aol.com/njnyrr
>                     njnyrr.homestead.com (in progress)
>
>

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