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Re: (erielack) Power Station Question
For a while when I was running the mainline there were strings of covered
hoppers going in and out of the plant on the Marion Jct. side. I suspect
they were being loaded with ash from the boiler.
I don't know if they are still being loaded.
Steve
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On 7/11/05 12:50 PM, "Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_lucent.com>
wrote:
> Ed Montgomery wrote:
>
>> The reason I brought this up is that I never saw any long
>> unit trains of
>> coal either on the old Lackawanna Boonton Line or when it was cut over
>> to the Greenwood Lake at Mountain View. For that matter I
>> don't recall
>> seeing any hoppers around the power station. Maybe it did
>> come in on a
>> barge but that would be a long trip to ship coal via a water route.
>
> If the coal came from Baltimore, that isn't too bad.
>
> When I was attending Stevens in the early 1990s, I would sometimes commute to
> home in Boonton via the Boonton Line. I'd always be staring out the window to
> look for "cool" railroad related stuff, and that power plant fascinated me. I
> remember seeing an OLD 40' tank car inside the plant, unlettered, but most of
> the time, the only stuff I saw on this siding was some NJT track equipment
> parked just off the Boonton Line. Not sure where that tank car went, but I
> would assume to scrap.
>
> - Paul
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