(erielack) Re: Signal Question

["Tom Beckett" <tabeckett_@_stny.rr.com>]

The Buffalo Sub had a similar arrangement. All signals on that line had a 
"B" suffix. The signals at Arkport were 337-1B and 337-2B(and, BTW a pair of 
semaphores almost til the end of double track there). I think CR did away 
with that designation after they single tracked the line in the early 90s. 
At $2.50/gallon, I'm not about to drive out there just to look!!

Tom B

- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_lucent.com>
To: "'Michael Sheehy '" <njnyrr_@_optonline.net>; 
<erielack-owner_@_lists.elhts.org>; "'EL Mailing List '" 
<erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 10:22 AM
Subject: RE: Signal Question (was RE: (erielack) Odd signal)


> Usually the "2J" would stand for the track and the line. "2" means "track 
> 2" and the "J" might be the one-letter indicator of the NJ&NY?
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: erielack-owner_@_lists.elhts.org
> To: EL Mailing List
> Sent: 8/12/05 10:22 AM
> Subject: Signal Question (was RE: (erielack) Odd signal)
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>
> 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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