NOTE: This message had contained at least one image attachment. To view or download the image(s), click on or cut and paste the following URL into your web browser: http://lists.elhts.org/listthumb.cgi?erielack-04-01-06 10209.jpg (image/jpeg, 500x324 42578 bytes, BF: 3.80 ppb) Bloomfield freight house on the ex-Erie Orange Branch, circa 1982. I believe that the EL used to keep the Silver Lake Drill engine here overnight, until the job was abolished around 1974. Thus the crew would report here. The Silver Lake would sometimes run down to Croxton to get its cars for the Orange Branch, or would wait for the Greenwood Lake Haul to set them out at OJ North Newark. Interesting that the Dundee Drill (Dundee Branch, Passaic NJ) had a similar operating pattern, but the engine and crew always came out of Croxton Yard (at least when I remember, from 1965 onward). The Dundee crew would run light to and from Croxton; the Garfield Drill would handle the cars from the branch junction with the Bergen County Line in Garfield to Croxton. Jim Gerofsky The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
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