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Re: (erielack) Two Items

- --- "Montgomery, Edward T" <Edward.Montgomery_@_fcps.edu> wrote:
> As I read through a number of the messages over the past 10 days or so
> there has been a lot of talk about BJ and WJ tower along with some
> photos.  It's interesting, I think there were some timetables in the 50s
> that referred to the Bergan Line as being the Bergan county "short-cut"
> as well as the "Bergan County Railroad".  That was rather confusing for
> somebody in the 6th grade.

It still confuses some people...  The Main Line was, naturally, the
original line between Suffern and Jersey City that the Erie took over from
predecessor railroads when the Erie decided that the ferry from Piermont
to New York was not what they wanted.

The Bergen County Railroad was a charter device to build a bypass route
around the busier parts of the Main Line to speed through freight and
passenger trains that didn't need to go through Paterson; it went through
an area that was less developed (if you can believe that now).

> On another note as I was contemplating a trip to Ohio this summer.  This
> is a weird question, I must admit but it concerns the forerunner of PATH
> the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad.  I remember seeing it listed in the
> Official Guide as a real railroad.  Could the H&M and for that matter
> PATH be considered an interurban?

The H&M was regulated as a 'real railroad' and PATH is still subject to
tighter regulation than subway systems because it is interstate and thus
under the FRA.  Though intrastate, the Staten Island Railway is also
subject to FRA rules, hence its cars are somewhat different from NYC
subway cars.

=====
Gary R. Kazin
DL&W Milepost R35.7
Rockaway, New Jersey

http://www.geocities.com/gkazin/index.html


		
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