Did a quick search on Boonton, NJ in the Steamtown archives and got the
following hits, if anyone is intersted. Each hit is usually a folder:
Record No.50116--DL&W RR--Engineers Files--Record File #50116--Boonton,
NJ--Property in vicinity of Old Depot
File #1440--DL&W RR--Chief Engineers Files--1440--Side track agreement and
shortening of track at Boonton, NJ 1933 - 1946
File #1961--DL&W RR--Chief Engineers Files--1961--Tracks--Boonton Iron
Works--Boonton, NJ 1949 - 1955
File #1961--DL&W RR--Chief Engineers Files--1961--Side track facilities
near Jamesville, NY--Boonton Iron Works--Boonton, NJ 1948 - 1959
File #2552--DL&W RR--Chief Engineers Files--2552--Retaining wall--National
Sash Weight Company--Boonton, NJ 1946
File #3541--DL&W RR--Chief Engineers Files--3541--Proposed
sidetrack--Boonton Full Fashioned Hosiery Mills--Boonton, NJ
1950
File #3556--DL&W RR--Chief Engineers Files--3556--Crossing
protection--Boonton, NJ (1935-1960)
File #4549--DL&W RR--Chief Engineers Files--4549--Proposed
lease--Seguine-Bogert Company--Boonton, NJ 1955-1956
File #5402--DL&W RR--Chief Engineers Files--5402--Side track--E.F. Drew and
Company--Boonton, NJ 1949-1960
File #5665--DL&W RR--Chief Engineers Files--5665--Sidetrack installed and
agreement with C.H. Leonard at Boonton Feed, Boonton, NJ 1915 - 1923
File #6004--DL&W RR--Chief Engineers Files--6004--Removal of interlockings
at Fanny Bridge--Boonton, NJ 1935-1950
File #6619--DL&W RR--Chief Engineers Files--6619--Purchase and lease of
land at Main St., Boonton, NJ for construction ,Francisco Estates, Isaddore
Schafer properties and others inc. Boonton Holding Co. 1922- 1960
File #6859--DL&W RR--Chief Engineers Files--6859--Derailment--Dixons Coal
Dock--Boonton, NJ 1936
File #7062--DL&W RR--Chief Engineers Files--7062--Railroad issues--Boonton,
NJ 1943-1952
File #7498.01--DL&W RR--Chief Engineers Files--7498--(1 of 8)--Bridge
4.95--Hackensack River--Boonton, NJ 1956-1953
File #7498.02--DL&W RR--Chief Engineers Files--7498--(2 of 8)--Bridge
4.95--Hackensack River--Boonton, NJ 1957-1960
File #7498.03--DL&W RR--Chief Engineers Files--7498--(3 of 8)--Bridge
4.95--Hackensack River--Boonton, NJ 1956-1958
File #7498.04--DL&W RR--Chief Engineers Files--7498--(4 of 8)--Bridge
4.95--Hackensack River--Boonton, NJ 1958-1959
File #7498.05--DL&W RR--Chief Engineers Files--7498--(5 of 5)--Bridge
4.95--Hackensack River Boonton, NJ (1953-1958)
File #7498.06--DL&W RR--Chief Engineers Files--7498--(6 of 8)--Bridge
4.95--Hackensack River Boonton, NJ (1957-1958)
Patrick McKnight
Historian/Archivist
Steamtown NHS
570-340-5193
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Edward T" To: "EL Mail List" <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
<Edward.Montgomer cc: (bcc: Pat McKnight/STEA/NPS)
y_@_fcps.edu> Subject: RE: (erielack) Boonton 1949
02/05/2008 09:02
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I have to agree. I guess this might be one of those "Fairchild Aerial
Survey" Pictures. Looking at it I think I can smell the Drew plant.
The spur by the freight house was a line that extended up along the back
of Boonton along the Rockaway River up to the park where the Boulevard
comes into Boonton. It was there into the late 60s. I remember seeing
EL store cars on it back then. I think it served some industries at one
time.
At the bottom of the picture is the factory east of Boonton. The
building is still there. What is interesting is there appears to be a
siding serving that plant. I think there once was a coal dealer in that
area as well, and they might have received shipments there.
Looking at the picture, you can see where the fourth main track was
removed. It remained in place until the 1940s from Lincoln Park west.
I'm not sure when it was taken out west of Boonton, but I remember
seeing the bridge abutments west of Boonton station and noticing that
the farthest north bridge had been removed by the 1950s.
This is truly an example of Boonton when it was a manufacturing town
producing a lot of business for the Lackawanna.
- -----Original Message-----
From: Paul Brezicki [mailto:doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net]
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 6:59 AM
To: EL Mailing List; Paul Tupaczewski; Bill Sheppard
Subject: Re: (erielack) Boonton 1949
This is a great photo, thanks for posting. Paul might appreciate it just
a little bit, that is, unless he's already seen it. Paul, you sent me a
similar aerial view when I was helping you plan your layout, but I think
the angle was different? Anyway, the view looks west, the center
dominated by Drew Chemical sitting adjacant to a residential area,
smokestack spewing God-knows-what. Looks like it would have kept a
switch crew busy for a while. More or less across from Drew on the south
side of the tracks is the passenger station, and to the west on the
north side at the sharper curve is the freighthouse. What is the line
coming off the main just west of there and heading NE? It doesn't appear
in my atlas, but the deck truss bridge (with tank cars) appears overly
substantial for an industrial spur.
Paul B
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Thought you might enjoy this aerial photo of Boonton from 1949.
I purchased it from the New Jersey State Archives; Dept.of State.
It came in the mail today. In a letter that came with the photo.
They said I could share the photo as long as I gave credit to the
above.
This is awesome.
Enjoy
Ed Wheeler
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