Re: (erielack) PASSAIC RIVER DRAWBRIDGE

[Ken <erie910_@_harborbeach.com>]

Wonder where the tank for the fuel was.


Ken

At 09:09 PM 10/4/02 -0300, bill guimes wrote:
>Hi List:
>
>         In the late 50's, I used to take a train from Ridgewood to Hoboken
>daily in the summer. I remember seeing a pipe that ran along the railing
>from the end of the railing on the platform to the span. My guess is
>that this was for fuel oil for the boiler. It wouldn't surprise me if
>they used river water to make steam.
>
>         FWIW, the lift bridge at Seacaucus, "Upper Hack" has a similar pipe
>from the end of the bridge to the lift span. This bridge has a Diesel
>engine that powers the bridge.
>
>         Bill
>
>Ken wrote:
> >
> > 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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