Re: (erielack) DL&W ETT 1956

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Ed
When the bridge at the Paper Mill  was replaced it was a single track bridge that is still there today.
Double track ended in the next couple of years at two different location to the east of the bridge. One was at Tinker Town Crossing.   When they started single tracking, it was cut back to near Slateford.
 
Bob 
 
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From: Edward.Montgomery_@_fcps.edu
To: erielack_@_lists.elhts.org
Sent: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 12:40 PM
Subject: (erielack) DL&W ETT 1956


I was looking at the 1956 DL&W ETT at:  http://www.jon-n-bevliles.net/RAILROAD/DLW%20ETTs/DL&W-109(med).pdf.  
This was about seven months after Hurricane Diane tore up the ROW from the Water 
Gap up through the Poconos.  I noticed a little change in operation that was a 
forerunner to many other changes as the fortunes of the DL&W began to crumble.  
In the spring of 1956, ABS signals reigned all over the place except for a .8 
mile stretch between the Tinkertown crossing and Bells Bridge which was CTC - 
single track.  DL&W must have replaced that bridge with a single span with no 
intention of adding a second.  I believe the CTC machine was at Stroudsburg 
Tower.  Within two years the single tracking would extend across the cut-off and 
within another two the Boonton Line would be essentially single track from 
Denville to Paterson.  A second track remained in place from west of Montville 
but the primary track was reversible.  
 
Ed Montgomery
 
 

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