(erielack) April Picture

["Montgomery, Edward T" <Edward.Montgomery_@_fcps.edu>]

Not much has been said about the April calendar picture.  It's Denville
with an RS leading two Boonton coaches.  I have to say that the GMY
paint really brought a sense of life, maybe youth, to the RS's.  They
looked almost brand new in that scheme.  Here's a question regarding
this:  When William White began the repainting of EL engines, where was
the work performed?  I doubt it was in Hoboken.  Another question about
the RS's:  EL or Erie blanked out the cab windows that straddled the
hood.  Why did they do that?  One would think it would have brought more
light to the cab, or was that the problem - Did it create glare?

 

This is train 1062 heading east in mid-morning on a Sunday.  When EL
severed the Boonton Line and connected it to the Greenwood Lake Division
they realigned the weekend train schedules.  The old DL&W Sunday
schedule was rather odd.  It appeared to be trains that made some
revenue carrying milk and a few others that, for some reason or another
the railroad couldn't discontinue:  A mid morning w/bound to Netcong
followed by the Branchville milk train.  Sunday evenings had two
e/bounds, the milk train from Branchville and a later train originating
at Dover.  When the change to the Greenwood Lake was made 1062 was a
mid-morning train to Hoboken.  Later in the morning the Branchville milk
train departed.  In the evening the e/bounds were reduced to the
Branchville train and an early evening w/bound to Dover.  These trains
made very few stops on the Greenwood Lake portion of the run.  It looked
like EL was trying to lure some Sunday riders who might have wanted to
go into the city for the day.  I don't think it worked.  Most people
didn't know the trains existed and Lakeland buses ran a faster more
frequent schedule.

 

Ed Montgomery

 

 



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