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RE: (erielack) Nanuet Passing Sidings (ex NJ&NY RR)



Some kind soul posted the Google map link to Moodna Viaduct a couple months ago.  When shifted to
the photo map version, you can see the Newburgh branch, and by panning, you can easily follow it all
the way into Newburgh.

SGL 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: erielack-owner_@_lists.elhts.org 
> [mailto:erielack-owner_@_lists.elhts.org] On Behalf Of Russell Hallock
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 11:55 PM
> To: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
> Subject: Re: (erielack) Nanuet Passing Sidings (ex NJ&NY RR)
> 
> There was an active interchange in Newburgh.   It was there 
> at least until 
> the late 1960's.  Then it was torn out and not replaced until 
> Conrail took over, but in the opposite direction from the 
> original.  Tank cars of diesel fuel were loaded at a tank 
> farm on the West Shore, interchanged to the Erie and sent 
> either to Port Jervis or to the Lehigh & Hudson River Ry in Warwick.
>   Just west of  Haverstraw was an interchange also.  I 
> remember a conductor telling me that once many years ago the 
> specials from West Point to the Army-Navy game were sent that 
> way due to a derailment on the lower West Shore line.  That 
> would have been something to see.  I can't say for sure it 
> happened,  maybe sort of an urban legend?   While on Rockland County, 
> Woodbine yard is located on a remnant of the NJ&NY line 
> toward Haverstraw. 
> That line was used untill the early 1970's to take coal to 
> Letchworth Village power plant.  A similar operation served 
> Rockland State Hospital near Orangeburg from the Piermont 
> branch via a spur a couple miles long.  As of the 80's the 
> rails were still there but very overgrown.
>    RH
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Sheehy" <njnyrr_@_optonline.net>
> To: "Janet & Randy Brown" <jananran_@_mymailstation.com>; 
> <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 3:22 PM
> Subject: RE: (erielack) Nanuet Passing Sidings (ex NJ&NY RR)
> 
> 
> > No, not Newburgh.  Near Haverstraw.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: erielack-owner_@_lists.elhts.org
> > [mailto:erielack-owner_@_lists.elhts.org]On Behalf Of Janet & Randy 
> > Brown
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 3:03 PM
> > To: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
> > Subject: Re:(erielack) Nanuet Passing Sidings (ex NJ&NY RR)
> >
> >
> > Michael -- I'm not sure there was a physical connection 
> between Erie 
> > and NYC at Newburgh.  I though the elevation difference was 
> too great 
> > to allow an interchange, the Erie being uphill.
> >
> > Randy Brown
> 
> 
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