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Re: (erielack) Northern Branch Moves

- --- Curtis Brookshire <curtis.brookshire_@_verizon.net> wrote:
> To use Hoboken Terminal, a connection was built between the DL&W Boonton
> line and the Erie passenger main east of the Newark and Greenwood Lake
> junctions.  The connection allowed trains, upon taking the sharp right
> at DL&W West End to access the Boonton Line, Erie Main, Erie Greenwood
> Lake or Erie Newark Branches.  This connection is used today by New
> Jersey Transit, although passenger trains no longer use the lines once
> called the Newark Branch or Greenwood Lake Branch.

The connection between the Lackawanna and the Erie is WEST of the
Greenwood Lake line.  After West End, as part of the rearrangement of the
Boonton and Greenwood Lake lines, a ramp track was built to connect to
that line, using what had been Track 4 on the Lackawanna Boonton Line;
that's at MP 2.4 (from Hoboken).  A little farther west, the three
remaining tracks split into the Main (using the ex-Boonton Line) and
Bergen County lines at Bergen Jct, MP 3.1.

Things were later rearranged for the construction of Secaucus Junction.  I
don't have a current track chart.



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

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


		
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