Re: (erielack) Blairstown

[Dlw1el2_@_aol.com]

In a message dated 8/27/2005 4:58:19 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net writes:

I've  always wondered (as have lots of others) why EL was so eager to cede 
the  Boonton line row in Paterson for I-280 when they must have had some inkling 
of  the potential problems with operating through freights on the NY&GL. I  
imagine the clearance-restricted Kingsland tunnel was a big factor. Do you  
know the actual vertical clearance?





Paul
It was Erie Management, thinking that the Erie side would always see all  the 
freight and that the Scranton side would get by with there one or two  trains 
in each direction ok.
I'm sure the state ( federal ) money urged for complete  abandonment around 
Garret Mt, as opposed to trying to share the right of  way, which I was told 
once that they were willing to do if they had  to.    It was Rt 80 not 280.   
Kingsland tunnel  wouldn't permit auto rack but it wasn't a restriction for 
normal  cars.  Remember an anxious moment for all the crew when we took an 
extended  height box car through the tunnel in the early 80 with the  Trainmasters 
urging, when we all said it wouldn't fit.   Engineer  went 10 MPH and we never 
touched.  Don't remember what the  exact height restriction on it was.  I bet 
it's more restrictive today  than it was back then.
 
Bob B 



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