RE: (erielack) Caldwell Branch Operations

["Montgomery, Edward T" <Edward.Montgomery_@_fcps.edu>]

This is an interesting thought.  I watched a lot of this action for the
three years that Midvale service continued after the Greenwood Lake -
Boonton Line connection was made.  Usually the evening connection to
Midvale was from a train that dropped off its last passengers at Great
Notch or Upper Montclair.  I don't have one of the original tts in front
of me but if there was reason to hold a train at Mountain View, it would
be held.  There was nothing else going on the GL between there and
Midvale at that time of the day.

I do remember one occasion probably in 1965 when the first train in the
evening ran terminating at Midvale.  After that there was a freight
derailment along the Great Notch grade stopping all train movement
throughout the rest of the evening.  The Midvale train turned and
usually ran back as an extra to make another w/bound run later in the
evening.  Well the train got to Mountain View and never got a green
signal.  It was powered by an E8.  After quite some time, it backed up
to the Midvale yard and waited there.

After the connecting service was put in place, the patronage on the
Midvale trains seemed to radically drop off.

Ed Montgomery



- -----Original Message-----
From: erielack-owner_@_lists.elhts.org
[mailto:erielack-owner_@_lists.elhts.org] On Behalf Of erie910
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 11:39 AM
To: tact86_@_excite.com
Cc: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
Subject: Re: (erielack) Caldwell Branch Operations

My commuting experience on the E-L tells me that few trains were late.  
Would shuttles at Mt. View to Wanaque/Midvale or at Great Notch to Essex

Fells be held if a train with which they were to connect were late?

Ken Bush

tact86_@_excite.com wrote:

>Yes; This was after the cut-over. Some of the Wanaque-Hoboken trains
were replace by the shuttles to Mountain View, with a connection to a
Boonton  Line Train.
>
>
>
>
> --- On Tue 08/23, Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul) < paultup_@_lucent.com >
wrote:
>From: Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul) [mailto: paultup_@_lucent.com]
>To: tact86_@_excite.com, erielack@lists.railfan.net
>Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:24:18 -0400
>Subject: RE: (erielack) Caldwell Branch Operations
>
>  
>
>>Common practice on the line from Mountain View to Wanaque was <br>>
running a RS2 or 3 on each end of the train.<br><br>Wasn't this started
after the cut-over of the NY&GL to the Boonton Line in 1963? This
shuttle only ran for a few years before all service to Wanaque was
terminated, correct?<br><br>The Caldwell Branch shuttle, I believe, went
back into Erie steam years, did it not?<br><br>	- Paul<br><br>	The Erie
Lackawanna Mailing List<br>	Sponsored by the ELH&TS<br>
http://www.elhts.org<br>
>>    
>>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com
>The most personalized portal on the Web!
>
>
>
>	The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List
>	Sponsored by the ELH&TS
>	http://www.elhts.org
>  
>


	The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List
	Sponsored by the ELH&TS
	http://www.elhts.org

	The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List
	Sponsored by the ELH&TS
	http://www.elhts.org

------------------------------