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Re: (erielack) branches, Spurs, tracks, etc.
The Greystone Branch was somewhat unique because, as you may be aware, it
was technically the first trackage to be electrified (for the Morris
Traction Co., who also used it) for the DL&W...ca. 1898, I believe.
"Len VanderJagt"
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02/10/2006 02:38 PM
Please respond to
"Len VanderJagt"
With regard to the topic of "branches":
The Sussex Branch was a proper branch my name, identified as such in the
employee's timetable. On the Erie side, the Piermont Branch had similar
status, although, I believe, it constituted the original Erie main. The
Gladstone branch (P & D), Harrison branch, Caldwell branch, Chester branch,
and Pine Bush branch are other examples of designated branches. The
original Lackawanna Main through Washington was the "Old Road", the
Phillipsburg Branch beginning at Washington.
Tracks and locations acquired names which might later be incorporated into
the timetable, becoming "official." Red onion, cherry tree band, Devils
hole, Paradise curve, come to mind.
The Greenwood Lake was originally a "division" by name on the Erie, later a
"branch." The Boonton Line was just that, not the Boonton branch.
Just because a spur may be long, does not make it a branch. A long spur
serves one or more industries, but does not have identified stations or
locations per the timetable.
Names of tracks changed in the modern era when Conrail imposed its
nomenclature on parts of EL trackage.
The track to the state hospital and Greystone was, in my experience, pretty
much identified as such. Spurs into particular customers were identified
by
the name of the shippers/receiving entity. Those names would tend to stick
at times. K&E, Dixon's, etc tended to retain their names even when the
original entity had gone belly up. The Totowa water track was a multiple
spur track, not a branch. In some cases, names outlived both the track and
structures they were originally describing. They then became a place,
functioning much like a milepost number.
Len VanderJagt
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