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RE: (erielack) Boonton Line freight trains-analysis

Rich,

The Gladstone Branch, reverse-signalled on single track, wasn't TCS, was
it?

Chuck




                                                                                                                               
                      Richard Pennisi                                                                                          
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Chuck,

Roseville Ave was open 1st trick 5am to 1pm and 2nd trick 1 pm to 9pm.
This was well before and after the last trains arrived and departed on the
Montclair Branch.

Standard practice was before the operator at Roseville Tower headed home
for the night, to make sure the signals were lined track 3 to track 3
westbound, track 2 to track 2 eastbound and track 1 to track 1 eastbound
(that means lined through Roseville Ave).  Traffic on track 1 had to be
changed between Millburn (controlled by Summit) and Roseville Ave.  Track 1
was Traffic Control System (TCS).  In other words it was CTC on track.
Only EL and ATSF used the term TCS most other railroads used the term CTC.

Roseville Ave was closed Saturday, Sunday and Holidays.

Rich

Charles_Walsh_@_Berlex.com wrote:

 Rich,

 Regarding Roseville Avenue Tower, in later years (after 1966) did it close
 basically after the last train had left the Montclair Branch? It seems to
 me that things wrapped up pretty early on the branch and that all
 westbound
 Morristown Line trains west of Roseville Avenue used Track 3 after 7-ish
 or
 8-ish or so in the evening and that Track 1 was reset for eastbound
 movements (i.e. for the AM rush) within that timeframe.

 Also, in regards to the other (earlier) towers on the Morristown Line,
 when
 might they have closed? South Orange, I believe, closed in 1966, but I
 don't recall when Millburn and Morristown towers closed, do you?

 Chuck




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 Chuck,

 1. The west end of the siding was controlled by Stroudsburg and the East
 end was controlled by Port Morris
 2. The towers open at the time of the Conrail take over were:
 former DL&W - Stroudsburg, Port Morris, Dover, Denville, Summit, Roseville
 Ave., Newark, West End, Grove Street (Hoboken), Hoboken Terminal Tower.
 The drawbridge at Lyndhurst was an interlocking controlled by the bridge
 operator (not a towerman) as was the Lower Hackensack drawbridge at West
 End.

 former Erie - Suffern (SF), Waldwick (WC), Ridgewood (WJ) HX and DB
 drawbridges.

 Rich
 Charles_Walsh_@_Berlex.com wrote:

 Rich,

 Was the East Slateford siding controlled from the East Stroudsburg Tower
 or
 Port Morris (UN?) Tower? Also, speaking of towers, what former DL&W towers
 were still in operation in NJ at the time of the Con! rail takeover?

 Chuck




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 10/04/2005 03:18 PM
 Please respond to
 Richard Pennisi





 Listers,

 There was, at one time, a siding at Slateford. That was torn up way back
 in the 60's some time. As a holdover from that siding there was a home
 signal at East Slateford (where the siding ending) that was still there
 until the end. Ev! erytime there was a lightening storm around the Water
 GAp, the relay house there at East Slateford was stuck and screwed up
 everything for hours.

 Rich

 "Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" wrote:
 Chuck Walsh asked:


 > Second point - wasn't there a passing siding just east of
 > Slateford on the
 > Cut-Off? If so, what role did that play on the sin! gle-track railroad
 > between Bell's Bridge and Lincoln Park? (I might be confused
 > about that.)

 I thought the only passing siding on the cut-off was at Greendell. Perhaps
 you're thinking about the "Old Road" coming off at Slateford, which forked
 into two tracks just past the Junction?


 - Paul

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