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Re: (erielack) PASSAIC RIVER DRAWBRIDGE

I have a tape which shows the operation of the bridge, but, in all the 
times that I was at the bridge, which was quite a few when I was a kid, I 
never recalled any trains or trucks which left coal for the boiler.  If it 
were coal-fired, there would have been a lot of coal consumed, and there 
would have been a storage place for it.  Wonder where it was?


Ken B.

At 09:48 PM 10/3/02 -0400, Pete wrote:
>The Passaic bridge is featured in both "Memories of the Erie Railroad-First
>generation Diesels" and Memories of the Erie-Lakawanna Railroad-Hoboken
>Terminal to Arden" tapes from Mark 1 Video.  The Erie tape includes footage
>of the bridge in operation and it is clearly steam powered.  Considering the
>amount of smoke bleched during operation, it is safe to assume the boiler
>was not gas fired.  In all probability it was a coal fired boiler.  If it
>was oil some serious attention was needed to the burner.
>
>Both tapes include footage of the Erie and EL in downtown Passaic during the
>1950's and early 1960's.
>
>Pete S

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