RE: (erielack) Caldwell Branch Operations

[Pat_McKnight_@_nps.gov]

We do have the following folder in the Steamtown Archives:

Box 200-Folder 022  --Erie RR--Contract #1156--Erie RR and Morristown &
Erie Railroad - connection and joint passenger station, Essex Fells, NJ
dated December 1, 1904 [Special Note:  includes correspondence regarding
allocation of station expenses at Essex Fells, NJ]

Let me know if anyone has any great interest in this and I'll pull it and
take a look at it.

Pat McKnight
Historian/Archivist
Steamtown NHS


                                                                                                       
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> 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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