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Re: (erielack) What is it?
Tell-tale support pole. Would be on both sides of the bridge. On a multi-track main line as this once was the tell-tale would have gone across all of the tracks to warn men on top of the moving cars of the overhead hazard ahead.
Bob Stafford
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While waiting for an NJT train to photograph in my hometown of Boonton
yesterday after work, I stumbled upon something I never noticed in my 20
years of trainwatching at this location (see attached "DSC_8531") - it's a
shorn-off steel pipe embedded in concrete on the side of the right-of-way.
My first thought is that this was a water stand for steam locomotives, but
it's an awfully small pipe for that. DSC_8532 shows where the pipe is in
relation to the right-of-way - this view looks east along the former 4-track
DL&W main. The pipe is at the bottom of the image.
Any thoughts?
- - Paul
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