Re: (erielack) DL&W 4 track / 2 track

[wmromanyshyn_@_att.net]

Don't forget it was also double track across the Passaic River bridge to Secaucus.

    * Subject: Re: (erielack) DL&W 4 track / 2 track
    * From: Dlw1el2__@__aol.com
    * Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:43:54 EDT

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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