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RE: (erielack) CWR At Moristown 1969

Paul, I think you're turned around.  This view looks east, and the
track on the right is the Morristown Yard lead.

The MU is parked on the Morristown yard lead.  Way back in 1969, EL
ran half-hourly from Hoboken off-peak.  All trains ran to Morristown,
but only half of them went all the way to Dover.  The others turned
at Morristown, using the yard lead.  Several morning peak trains
began their runs at Morristown and evening trains terminated there,
stored overnight in the yard, which had four tracks.  There also was
an era when the mid-day trains ran to Denville, changing directions
by crossing over at the switches west of the station.  Morristown
turn trains were assigned numbers in the 550 series, while Denville
turns were 560's.

The Morristown yard was updated in 1983 with the reelectrification,
but the first schedule for 25KV electric service did away with
Morristown turns; all trains ran to Dover.  A few Arrow cars may have
gone into the Morristown yard, but they wasn't scheduled to do so and
I doubt that it happened.

- --- "Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:
> NICE SHOTS! One obvious question comes to mind - why is there an MU
> train parked on the lead to the Morristown & Erie interchange? (out
> of the scene to the right?)

Gary R. Kazin
DL&W Milepost R35.7
Rockaway, New Jersey


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