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RE: (erielack) DL&W 4 track / 2 track
I would imagine that the removal of the w/bound track between 1939 and
1943 had something to do with the drop off of anthracite traffice and
the arrival of the FT's permitting longer trains. At that time the
Lackawanna re-signalled the middle track making it reversible with a
straight shot on the flyover through Denville.
The cut back of communter trains when the diesels came in the 50s along
with almost all of the anthracite traffic permitted the removal of the
third track in the mid-50s -- somewhere around 1955.
Ed Montgomery
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From: Dlw1el2_@_aol.com [mailto:Dlw1el2@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 6:44 PM
To: erielack_@_lists.elhts.org
Subject: Re: (erielack) DL&W 4 track / 2 track
In a message dated 4/19/2007 11:35:10 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
paultup_@_comcast.net writes:
The DL&W Boonton Line had four tracks between Denville and Lincoln
Park, and then two tracks from LP east to Secaucus Paul
No, East to Paterson Jct. There was only a nine mile section of
double
track, on mostly level ground.
. My question is: WHY? Would that
have made Lincoln Park a big bottleneck on this, the DL&W's primary
freight route? Was there a lot of local traffic between Denville and
Lincoln Park that would have warranted the extra tracks? Or perhaps
larger grades, requiring extra tracks for hotshots to bypass slower
drags?
Yes, it was all up hill from Lincoln Park except for the short stretch
of level track through Boonton.
The fourth track disappeared west of Lincoln Park between 1939 and 1943
if that means anything .
Bob Bahrs
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