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Re: (erielack) Passaic Pictures

One more point about the Passaic River bridge.

The signal for the bridge was around the curve, north (railroad west) of 
Acrygg Avenue, so the trains stopped for the bridge could not even see the 
bridge.  There was a derail on the eastbound track which the bridge tender 
would activate when the signal was set for STOP because of the bridge 
opening.  Trains would stop at the signal, hoping to clear the Paulison Av. 
crossing, and the engineer would blow "flagman, protect rear of 
train."  The trainman who covered the last coach would take a flag and 
wander down the track about 50 feet.  When the derail was removed and the 
signal set to PROCEED, the engine would blow to recall the flagman from the 
west, and, when he was aboard, the train would proceed past the Passaic 
Park station, stopping as necessary, and on to Carlton Hill & Rutherford.

To the best of my knowledge, there was no derail on the westbound track on 
the Rutherford side of the river, since it was a clear view for at least a 
half mile  from east of the Carlton Hill station to the bridge.

As I recall, there was a light atop the bridge tender's "office," which had 
red and green indications.  The green faced the track and the reds were 90 
degrees off.  Thus, when the bridge was aligned for the railroad, the green 
indication was visible.  When it opened for river traffic, the green 
indication faced the river and the reds faced the tracks.


Ken B.

At 09:51 AM 10/1/02 -0400, MONTGOMERY| ED wrote:

>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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