Re: (erielack) "new" stuff

["Michael Connor" <mjconnor_rr_@_hotmail.com>]

Can't identify the 2534 location (the "Use Niagara Power" scene) but it 
argues for Buffalo, possibly a Bufalo-Hornell connection  with that RPO 
behind the tender.  I, for one, will keep looking.  M J Connor


>From: NJNYRR_@_aol.com
>Reply-To: NJNYRR_@_aol.com
>To: gelwood_@_dnaco.net
>CC: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net ('Erie Lackwanna')
>Subject: Re: (erielack) "new" stuff
>Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 20:14:43 EST
>
>Great pictures!!!  Thanks as always for posting them, George.
>
>I wish there were some taken on the NJ&NY or Piermont Branch, or Northern 
>RR
>besides Nyack... all hard to come by, sadly...  don't even start me on the
>New City Branch.... oh well.
>
>Just  a few comments/ questions
>
>A few geography points... Hillsdale, NY wasn't served by the Erie, though
>Hillsdale, NJ was, and still is by NJT.  There was an NJ&NY yard there for
>years.  Paterson, NJ and Suffern, NY are the correct town spellings.  Like
>Hillsdale, Patterson, NY was not an Erie town.  "Sufferin, NJ" is actually
>very funny and would make a good title for a comedy TV show.  NJ is a place
>of suffering. I spent 24 years there. :)
>
>Erie 2534 is in front of a building that says "Niagara Power" on it.  This
>picture is labeled Paterson, NJ, although I believe that this company
>operated in the Buffalo area.  Can anyone confirm this?
>http://gelwood.railfan.net/loco/erie-s2534alb.jpg
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>What a great station behind Erie 2541.  Can anyone with sharp eyes and an
>educated mind identify it?
>http://gelwood.railfan.net/loco/erie-s2541alb.jpg
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>What is X 4864 in the background?  Some MOW car I guess.
>http://gelwood.railfan.net/loco/erie-s2715alb.jpg
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>Great old wooden boxcars in this one!  Wortendyke, NJ is an area between
>Ridgewood and Ho-Ho-Kus, and I believe an NYS&W stop.  Was there ever a
>Bergen/Main Line stop called Wortendyke and where was this taken?
>http://gelwood.railfan.net/loco/erie-s2753alb.jpg
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>Michael Sheehy
>"Summit Park Station" NJNYRR/ Erie MP 34
>New Hempstead, NY
>
>njnyrr.homestead.com
>An online history project (in progress) detailing the significant effect of
>the NJ&NY RR and the Erie Piermont Branch on the development of communities
>in Bergen County, NJ and Rockland County, NY and its industrial heritage.
>


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