BOY!!! Talk about broken levees!
I hope this flood of "information" slows down long enough for the facts to catch up!
1. Northern Branch trains ran out of Hoboken after the closing of Jersey City. NYS&W trains ceased serving Jersey City in September, 1960, terminating at Susquehanna Transfer thereafter.
2. Westbound, they backed into the Arches after coming down the connection -- which was not the "swamp switch".
All this has been covered in great detail on this list within the last month or so.
3. The swamp switch was between the West Shore and the Northern, kind of at the south end of the West Shore yard. I don't know whic way it faced or why it was put in, but it foretold the current alignment.
Look at Sheppard's book or at Jim's last "bigmap".
Randy Brown
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Gary Kazin wrote:
>Westward from Hoboken:
>
>- Bergen Tunnels, then up the former DLW Boonton line that became Erie
>Main line.
Hold on a second, I thought all Northern Branch trains ran out of Jersey City? The NYS&W and Northern Branch trains were the last to use the terminal before it closed down in 1966?
>- Connecting track built for the Bergen County Line, commonly known as
>'Swamp Switch'.
I thought the "swamp switch" was a connection between the Northern and the NYC West Shore that Conrail put in, in North Bergen?
- Paul
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