Re: (erielack) Re: Paterson and Passaic Trackage& Croxton Connections

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In a message dated 10/1/2002 8:55:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
paultup_@_lucent.com writes:


> 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.
> 
> 

Correct, and to elaborate just a little more.  That track and the track 
coming in from DB Drawbridge connected just before they passed under the 
Lackawanna Main. After passing under the main you had two choices.  Go strait 
in to Croxton Via the Old Loop, or swing off to the right.  This track then 
came together with the other way of coming in off the Erie Main, and that was 
via the High Line.  These two tracks came together about where they crossed 
under the interchange tracks going to Marion.
From there you either went on the New Loop and entered Croxton from the East 
End or you went towards the Erie Tunnel and Cut, on what was actually part of 
a Wye.

When the engines of long trains coming into Croxton via the New Loop went by 
KW tower, which sat very close to the over head NYS&W bridge, you could look 
directly geographically west and see the rear of the  train going in the 
opposite direction.  This would be the case if it was coming down the High 
Line or coming in via the New Connection.

I know it sound confusing but look at Bill Sheppards EL Track Diagram Book 
and it will all come together.

Bob

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