To all listers, To add to Paul's commentary, Henry Butz and I were out chasing CS-9 on a very beautiful June 1, 1974. We first caught CS-9 at Great Notch, and chased as far as Paulinskill Viaduct. * The large signal bridge in the foreground is shorn of all its signals, for the Boonton Line. Where was the interlocking signal? Today it's a stand-alone signal about 50 feet west of this signal bridge - was it the same in EL days? Looking at my slides Paul, in a shot taken from Denville Tower while the crew was switching, the signal governing westbound movement stands just short of the next catenary support column. * CS-9 has finished making a set-out in this picture. I assume they dropped off cars on the siding directly behind the locomotives. Question is - what were those cars for? To be placed by the Dover Drill? They made quit a hefty set-out to the track directly behind the locomotive, mostly box cars. * CS-9's motive power is also pretty nifty - two SD45s bracketing an F7B (or possibly F5B ;). I've always been a fan of "dog's breakfast" lash-ups, and this is one of the things that makes the EL so much fun to model It was a neat lashup, and quit typical for CS-9 at the time. The "B" unit was 6322, and the trailing SDP-45 was 3656. By the time CS-9 had reached Port Morris, I can count a total of 9 cars in the consist, excluding the caboose. I was out chasing EL freights whenever I could at that time both on the Erie and the Lackawanna side of the railroad. Freight traffic was very sparse on the Lackawanna side, as most traffic was on the Erie. So getting a freight on the Lackawanna, in good weather, with an interesting lashup was a good catch. JJB ------------------------------
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