Re: (erielack) Boonton Line passenger service?

["Pete Scheckermann" <pschecke_@_columbus.rr.com>]

Checking some Lackawanna suburban timetables between 1948 and 1954, both
Train 10 and 47 still operated via the Boonton Line.  47 continued to
operate on the Boonton Line at least through June 1960.  Train 10 made a
scheduled stop at Paterson in 1948, but the stop was gone by 1950.

Earlier timetables published in Gardner's "Along the Lackawanna Railroad"
showed additional trains operating via the Boonton Line.  The reproduced
July 1930 timetable had the following Boonton Line trains:

Westbound:
    15  The Buffalo Mail
    25  Scranton Express
    1

Eastbound:
    10:  Lackawanna Special
    26:  New York Day Express
    42:

A later, but undated schedule listed the following trains via the Boonton
Line:

Westbound:
    15:  The Owl
    1
Eastbound:
    10:  New York Mail
    26: Merchants Express
    42

In the 1930 timetable, train 45, mixed train, is shown leaving from
Washington at 6:40AM; the later schedule has train 47 leaving Washington at
6:35AM.

By 1954, 42 is no longer on the timetable replaced with 44 and 47 originates
in Hoboken.

Pete S

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