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Re: (erielack) Boonton Line passenger service?
In looking over the list of Boonton Line trains, I note that 1026 starts at
Denville. Any idea as to why a train would start one station east of the
usual terminal and train servicing facility at Dover?
Ken B.
At 12:10 AM 1/25/02 +0000, Michael Connor wrote:
>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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