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(erielack) east end dest/west end desk?

One reason for the strange mix of territory on the East End dispatcher's 
desk in Hoboken during the EL days regards the DL&W Boonton Line CTC panel / 
code machine, a classic green-panel US&S machine with click-levers (the West 
End desk had a CTC code panel for Newburg Jct. to BC east Port Jervis, a GRS 
machine with a shiny black panel and mercury switch levers).  The Boonton 
Line panel controlled TCS points at Lincoln Park and Mountain View, which 
remained on the Boonton Line after the Oct. 1963 re-arrangement.  But the 
Paterson Jct. switches and signals were now on the Main Line, along with the 
Upper Hack Draw / West Secaucus.  So they gave the guy at the Boonton 
machine the Erie Main Line via Paterson as far as Ridgewood, and tacked the 
revised XW interlocking in Paterson (former Erie) onto the Boonton machine.  
On the revised Boonton Line, now going down the old Greenwood Lake line east 
of Mountain View, they patched the GA interlocking at Great Notch onto the 
Boonton machine, and gave the guy the Greenwood Lake Line (formerly under 
the Side Line Dispatcher, which I think was eliminated around 64 or 65).  
So, the machine in effect still took care of most of the former Boonton 
Line, which was now partially the hybrid Greenwood Lake-Boonton Line and 
partially the hybrid Main Line (east of Mountain View, although mostly 
abandoned until West Paterson, then just a spur until Paterson Jct.). The 
dispatcher's responsibilities were molded around the machine arrangement.  I 
wasn't around on the line long enough to be considered for the hot seats in 
Hoboken, so I'll defer to Rich and the other dispatcher guys as to what it 
was like working that hybrid situation on the East End desk.

Jim G.

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