Re: (erielack) New Jersey West Line (2)

["Rich Behrendt" <rbehrendt_@_columbus.rr.com>]

It's interesting that the Caldwell Branch is shown cutting through First 
Mountain between Verona and Montclair via a proposed tunnel.

The line as it left Caldwell e/b, followed Bloomfield Avenue, but where it 
ducks under Bloomfield Ave. to go north towards Cedar Grove, was proposed to 
go straight east , paralleling just south of Bloomfield Avenue through 
Verona, and would have spanned through Verona Park - In the wintertime in 
the 1970's you could still see some of where this proposed line had been 
graded intially through some of the neighboroods, but never completed, 
including the approaches on either side of Verona Park

Tri-State's Block Line did an intensive complete article on the history and 
operation of Caldwell Branch in the early 1980's, including this proposed 
alignment and the tunnel through into Montclair - the tunnel had just been 
started on the Montclair side when the line was abandoned for what 
eventually became the Caldwell branch via Cedar Grove and Overbrook - I 
remember hiking back there in the late 1970's to see the remnants of the 
tunnel - If not filled in and/or build on, there's probably nothing there 
today...

One wonders if this alignment had come to be, whether the line would be in 
place today...

Rich Behrendt
ELHS #384
- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Guthrie" <jguthrie_@_pipeline.com>
To: "Erie Lackawanna List" <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 11:02 AM
Subject: (erielack) New Jersey West Line


>A few weeks ago, there was  some discussion of the NJ West Line in relation 
>to the P&D.
>
> There's a large and optimistic Essex and Hudson County map now on the NJ 
> Midland site which pretty clearly shows the route.
>
> http://njmidland.railfan.net/essex.jpg
>
> Not only is it optimistic regarding the NJW, but also the route of the 
> Caldwell Branch from the Montclair Rwy.
>
> I scanned it large enough you can zero in on detail so it's slow loading, 
> but the 1870 map is well worth a look
>
> There's other neat stuff, like aqueducts, the Morris Canal and more . . .
>
> Cheers,
> Jim Guthrie
>
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