RE: (erielack) Erie PAs on the Northern Branch

[Ken <lackawanna_@_iname.com>]

Someplace in my stuff, I have  Northern Branch public timetable from near 
the end of passenger service.  There were 3 weekday trains in each 
direction only, and one in each direction stopped at Susquehanna 
Transfer.  I'll try to find it and report more details.


Ken B.

At 08:52 AM 1/28/02 -0500, Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul) wrote:
> > 3) Did some (or all) Northern Branch trains stop at
> > Susquehanna Transfer, or was that only a stop for NYSW
> > trains?  What about North Bergen?
> >
> > My understanding is that the platform at the Transfer was
> > actually between the two Northern tracks... apparently the
> > NYSW and Northern were operated as a single 4-track railroad
> > between Pavonia and the point where they diverged (Granton Jct.)?
>
>
>The Transfer was an NYS&W-only station, as far as I know. I would love to
>see a good diagram of the tracks at the Transfer to try and make sense of
>all this.
>
>And yes, the two lines diverged at Granton Jct. - the interlocking tower
>there still stands, albeit as a stone shell... :(
>
>
> > 5) The photo of the PA on the Northern Branch shows the
> > locomotive (road number unknown) still in its original black
> > and yellow paint.  Even though the photo was taken in 1957,
> > the paint is fairly shiny, and I had assumed it was from the
> > early 1950s.  When were the PAs repainted in the two-tone
> > green passenger scheme?
>
>Mid-1950s, but they didn't put an effort into getting all the units
>repainted... At least one made it to EL in black/yellow paint!
>
>         - Paul
>

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