Paul, Steve, Chuck et al, This might help. The July 1962 schedule shows 6 trains over the cutoff: EB: BH-4, NE-4 (Bfo-Cx); BH-12 (Bingo-P Morris) WB: HB-1, HB-3 (Cx-Bfo); HB-9 (P Morris-Bfo) I don't think CX-99 ever operated via Scranton. Don't forget it was really 2 trains: originally a hot boxcar/lcl/TOFC overflow from NY-99 schedule operated via Port; in early '71 the symbol was assigned to the new UPS train with a 4am cutoff at Croxton. It also operated via Port where it picked up the Stratford CT trailers. (The original CX-99's traffic went to NY-97.) Starting in '72 you also had the Cannonballs (at least some of the time), and the CNJ runthru pair (SE-98/ES-99) that began running via Lake Jct when it bailed out of PA. Conrail began shifting traffic back to the Erie side almost immediately. As for intermodals, the UPS traffic went to former PC routes and the remaining pair, TV-77/TV-98 went via Port, unless detoured. Paul B It appears that for the first four years of the newly-merged railroad, there were 5 trains on the line, mostly old DL&W symbol hold-overs (HB-1, HB-3, etc.), and all but one were westbounds (the sole eastbound was SC-2). Then it appears that the plan was to transfer as much of that traffic as possible to the Erie side, which undoubtedly coincided with the rearrangement of the DL&W Boonton Line in the same year. In 1965-66, there were only four trains on the Boonton Line (HS-9, X-1, NY-98, SC-2), then in 1967 the NY-98 was moved to the Erie and X-1 was terminated. The low point was in 1968 when the only trains were CS-9 and PN-98 (SC-2's successor). Then from 1969-1971, there were three (CX-99 was added), one more arrived in 1972 (ND-91), and the "big move" came in 1973 (which was the high point of trains on the Boonton Line, with 13 trains). The trains stayed relatively constant (11 in 1974, 12 in 1975 and 1976) until the end of the railroad. Of course, we to consider the many locals that plied at least part of the Boonton Line: 1st and 2nd Boonton Drill, Totowa Roustabout, Silver Lake Drill, Greenwood Lake Haul, and tangential locals like the Seaboard Drill. Plus all the commuter trains, and you still had a busy line, even in the "bottom" years of the mid-to-late-1960s. This topic has gotten my juices flowing; watch for a formal presentation at a future EL meeting... - - Paul _____________________ Paul R. Tupaczewski CDMA Trials and Demos Group Lucent Technologies 67 Whippany Road, Room 15D-116 Whippany, NJ 07981 Phone: 973-386-4966 Fax: 973-386-4147 Cell: 973-650-5871 The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org - ------------------------------
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