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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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