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(erielack) Passaic Pictures



The recently poste pictures of the Erie in the center of Passaic 
were great!!  The aerial shots explained a lot of things that I had not 
seen before.  I didn't realize that the tracks made such a sharp turn 
to the right after leaving the Passaic River bridge.  I know there 
were slow orders for all the trains going through the city because of 
all the grade crossings, but there probably was one for that curve 
as well.  I'll have to go back and check old ETT's for that.

I have an old Hagstroms map of Passaic County and they listed 
three stations in Passaic.  I was never aware of that but I'm 
wondering if there was a time there was a stop in the center of the 
city around Monroe St.  The map lists Passaic Park, and the 
Passaic station was listed as "Harrison Street".

One last note.  It was interesting to see that the last train through 
the city on Erie tracks was all Lackawanna equipment.

Ed Montgomery

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