Signal Question (was RE: (erielack) Odd signal)

[Michael Sheehy <njnyrr_@_optonline.net>]

Just a related question about signals on the Ex-Erie (this is the Pascack
Valley Line)- there is a signal in Park Ridge marked 23 (over) 2J.  23 I
believe was the miles to Jersey City (or Hoboken?) What does the 2J mean?
The only thing I can think of is that 2J might have been a reference "2
miles to the Hillsdale yard" but that yard has been gone for 50 years...

The signal is facing trains headed southbound (towards Hoboken).

On the topic of interesting signals, the NJ&NY still had semaphores that I
can recall (2 on a tower just north of the Park Ridge station, one just
south of the Woodcliff Lake station, and another in Hillsdale by the cement
company lead)up until the early 1980's.


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