Anyone have any news on how the Water Gap fared? What about the old station building? Curtis Brookshire Manassas, VA Second Messsage: Someone asked a couple of days ago about what impact the electrification had on the steam locomotives in 1930. First of all the remaining wooden coaches were retired. All but a couple of 4-4-0s went also. The remaining Americans ran the Washington jobs until 1946 when dieselization forced just about all the 4-6-2s into commuter service. Ditto for the 4-6-0s which ran the Sussex Branch. Most of the retired engines were camelbacks, and the few left were single-cabbed by around 1937. When the Pacifics started running to Branchville, the DL&W installed a wye outside of town, the turntable being too short. Crews used the wye to both turn their engines and run around the train and would back the remaining distance to Branchville allowing for easy spotting of milk cars. Carstens' "Lackawanna Heritage" book has a nice sequence of John Krause photos showing this maneuver. I forget what they did in Washington for turning, but the engines were serviced in Port Morris. Curtis The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
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