Re: (erielack) DLW Montclair Branch and Erie Orange Branch

["Gary R. Kazin" <gkazin_@_yahoo.com>]

Thanks for responding to this even though I sent it to you by mistake!  I
got the answer I really expected; the EL guys said no and absolutely no...

- --- Walter Elliott <walterelliott777_@_hotmail.com> wrote:
> March 12, 1:15 p.m.
> Re: Westinghouse siding @ Watsessing.
>
> It sound like the said siding would more likely link the old Erie
> Orange Branch than the DL&W Montclair Branch.

Look at this Yahoo Maps page:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Watsessing+Avenue,+Bloomfield,+NJ&ll=40.778153,-74.200416&spn=0.008157,0.021629&t=h

and scroll down one click.  Look where Arlington Avenue intersects Hoffman
Boulevard; this is just east of the DLW Montclair Branch.  There is a
curved siding going to the left - west, away from Westinghouse - and it's
in the deep cut built in 1910.  This is clearly visible when riding the
train, and so is a siding BEHIND part of the eastbound platform.

> There's a Watsessing Junction on the Montclair Branch, complete with a 
> milepost marking (see Tom Taber III's Vol. 3 glossary on the DL&W). The 
> junction had no physical connection, however, given the Erie Orange's
> ground and Montclair Branch's depressed levels.

I found it in the 20th Century volume 2, page 770.  It's a "Junction with
the N.Y. & Greenwood Lake R.R. branch to West Orange".  That's exactly
what I suspected.  The connection probably was removed long before the
Garden State Parkway was built (1950).

If you zoom in and scroll left, it looks like there was a right of way
north of the houses along Marcy Avenue leading toward the NY&GL (ERIE)
west of Prospect Street.

It is amazing what can be seen in the satellite photos if you know what to
look for!

> >From: "Gary R. Kazin" <gkazin_@_yahoo.com>
> >Subject: Re: (erielack) DLW Montclair Branch and Erie Orange Branch
> >Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 07:20:39 -0800 (PST)
>
> > I looked at a satellite photo of the area.  It's a trailing-point
> > siding off the eastbound track, going to the west with a fairly sharp
> > curve - opposite Westinghouse.  The satellite view shows it ended at a
> > loading dock and did not cross the Garden State Parkway, which it
> > would have had to do to reach the Erie.

Gary R. Kazin
DL&W Milepost R35.7
Rockaway, New Jersey

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