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RE: (erielack) Caldwell Branch Operations
- Subject: RE: (erielack) Caldwell Branch Operations
- From: "Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_lucent.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:52:08 -0400
> Before road switchers, how were passenger operations on the Caldwell
> Branch handled? Was there a turntable at Essex Fells to turn
> the steam
> locomotives?
There most definitely was a turntable at Essex Fells, that both the Erie and the M&E shared.
The most recent Greenwood Lake/Caldwell Branch
> passenger
> timetable which I have shows a few shuttle runs between Great
> Notch and
> Essex Fells. Some of the times between arrival in Essex
> Fells and the
> next trip out of Great Notch back to Essex Fells do not allow
> much time
> to turn a steam locomotive, couple on, do an air test, and return to
> Great Notch.
You'd be surprised how quickly you can turn one! I have an old 8mm film of them turning brand-new M&E Alco S4 #14 on the turntable, and it took roughly a 30 seconds to spin it 180 degrees.
- Paul
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