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RE: (erielack) Re: Paterson and Passaic Trackage



Curtis Brookshire wrote:

> The Boonton Line (now the east end of the "new" Main
> Line) did not connect directly to Croxton.  Trains had to 
> make some kind of reverse move at West End to enter Croxton.  
> Can an EL employee with more intimate knowledge tell us how 
> they did this?

Not an employee, but I am familiar with this: Trains would come off the Upper Hack drawbridge and then onto a track that went down a long ramp, and then curved under the Main Line, parallel to the "Third Track" heading out of Croxton to the NY&GL/Boonton Line, and came in via the Greenwood Lake Loops.

	- Paul

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