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RE: (erielack) Blairstown



> Are we sure the Cutoff was CTC (TCS in EL parlance)? The 
> Stroudsburg Op had
> to hoop orders; was that just for westbounds?

The Cut-Off was TCS/CTC controlled by a small panel at Port Morris tower. Slateford was eventually remoted to East Stroudsburg Tower.


 
> Here's another question. Prior to the 1963 incorporation of the Erie
> Greenwood Lake branch into the former DL&W main, was there 
> any connection
> between the latter and Croxton Yd? I don't see any on maps of 
> the area. So
> apparently until then, freights on the Scranton side had to 
> continue to use
> DL&W's Hoboken yard until the Greenwood line was used.

There was a connection made (prior to 1963, I believe) from the DL&W main (original Boonton Line) that came off just east of the Upper Hack lift bridge, parallelled the DL&W east all the while slowly dropping, and then when it reached the NY&GL into Croxton, it made a sharp 90-degree turn to the left and joined up with the NY&GL almost directly underneath the DL&W overpass, and that's how trains off the DL&W side got into Croxton. I think this connection was still used, albeit infrequently, after the 1963 combination of Boonton Line/NY&GL. This track was here up until a few years ago, when construction of Secaucus Jct. obliterated the track.



> Also 
> where was the
> connection between Croxton and Hoboken eventually installed?

I always wondered this myself. Can anyone answer this?

	- Paul

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