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Re: (erielack) Nanuet Passing Sidings (ex NJ&NY RR)
Not only was there an active interchange, but it was used for fantrip in the
1960s: One memorable RRE trip included the West Shore (reached via the ramp
from Hoboken Terminal) to Newburgh, then back via E-L's Newburgh Branch (and
if memory isn't too hazy, I believe that trip also covered the L&HR to
Andover Jct and back on the ex-Lackawanna).
Cheers,
Jim Guthrie
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Russell Hallock" <rhallock_@_frontiernet.net>
To: <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 11:55 PM
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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