RE: (erielack) Google Earth

["Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_lucent.com>]

Good question (you can also see this if you search for "Secaucus, NJ" on maps.google.com and put it in Satellite view, and scroll down a little bit)

I see the spur into the power plant remains as well, as does the track going into Croxton - maybe they forgot about the connection track?

	- Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: erielack-owner_@_lists.elhts.org
> [mailto:erielack-owner_@_lists.elhts.org]On Behalf Of Hoboken
> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 8:21 AM
> To: erielack_@_lists.Railfan.net
> Subject: (erielack) Google Earth
> 
> 
> If you download and install Google Earth, you view satellite 
> images of the 
> earth.  While trying to follow the route of the Erie Main 
> Line through 
> Carlton Hill, Passaic Park, Passaic, and Clifton to Paterson, 
> I noted that 
> the connection between the old Greenwood Lake Branch and the 
> old Lackawanna 
> Boonton Line now has a bumper post just west of where the 
> turnout was--it 
> appears, but the image isn't clear enough to me, that the 
> Boonton Line track 
> was straight-railed.  Wonder why NS simply didn't pull up all 
> the rail on 
> the connection between the old Greenwood Lake Branch and the 
> old Boonton 
> Line, since there clearly would not be passenger service on 
> that part of the 
> line again.
> 
> 
> Ken Bush 
> 
> 
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