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Re: (erielack) Boonton Line passenger service?

DL&W ETT #117 (24 April 1960), the last DL&W ETT, shows the following First 
Class trains running Weekdays via the Boonton Line:
# and Origin (eastward) or Destination (westward)
1006        Dover
1010        Dover
1012        Dover
1014        Dover
1016        Washington
1024        Netcong
1026        Denville
47          Binghamton
1013        Dover
1015        Netcong
1017        Dover
1021        Washington
1023        Dover
1027        Dover
1031        Netcong
1033        Dover
15          Buffalo



>From: "Pete Scheckermann" <pschecke_@_columbus.rr.com>
>Reply-To: "Pete Scheckermann" <pschecke_@_columbus.rr.com>
>To: "Tupaczewski, Paul R \(Paul\)" <paultup_@_lucent.com>,   
><erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
>Subject: Re: (erielack) Boonton Line passenger service?
>Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 21:48:30 -0500
>
>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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