Re: (erielack) Boonton Line passenger service?

["J. McEachen" <jmcea_@_optonline.net>]

My previously described one-day dash to work in New York while
shepherding my town's Scouts at Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco, from Andover station
to Hoboken in August, 1965, involved a train change in Netcong in the
early am. The train came in from the west (Washington I imagine) and we
proceeded via the Boonton Line. I can vaguely remember the timetable
showing certain Dover-Hoboken trains with the words "via Boonton Line"
covering the stations on the M&E. Since the Boonton Line was not
electrified, I believe the trains were diesel from Washington or Netcong
mostly. I don't think we stopped, and the passage IIRC was fast and
straight. My evening return was also via a Washington train, change at
Netcong to a 2 or 3 car Sussex train. 

This thread/exchange certainly renewed some long-ago memories. I can
imagine the Sussex Branch would be very useful today. And that is my
profound statement for the day.
Joel McEachen
Fairfield, CT

>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:
> -snip-

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