(erielack) Ordinaries Via Paterson

["JG at graytrainpix" <graytrainpix_@_hotmail.com>]

I recall a mid-day w/b ordinary via Paterson running pretty regularly around 
1970 - 72.  It originated in the DLW yard in Hoboken (18F) and ran west via 
West End Tower and Bergen Jct, thru Kingsland and Paterson.  Most of the 
time it worked Paterson, then Suffern and anything else west from there (NJ, 
Greycourt, Middletown Summit, etc.) as needed.  Not unreasonably, it was 
called the Hoboken Ordinary.  Nickname was the Hobo Ordinary.  I think it 
replaced the Paterson Gang, although on weekends you still might have seen 
one of those.  Also, TC-1 sometimes ran west via Kingsland and did work in 
Paterson (usually a quick w/b pickup  . . .  didn't Trainmaster Al Lutedke 
once get hurt by a derailment while TC-1 was working near XW?).  I recall 
hanging out at Kingsland station at the time and occasionally seeing both 
trains go west around late morning / early afternoon.  Can you NY Div 
dispatchers (hello, JY) confirm?

Jim Gerofsky



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