Earlier this week I posted a note about EL purchasing Jeep cab forward pickups with high-rail and plows. I always thought these were unique vehicles. They were small and probably were replaced with the Jeep Wagoneer pick-up a year or two later. However, they looked like excellent trucks for plowing. You would be right up on top of the plow and see the snow you were moving. Regarding high-railers. I have always wondered what it was like to place them on tracks. EL had the GMC pickups when they were building the new turn-out to connect the Boonton Line to the Greenwood Lake Division. I remember them lining up the truck on the Boonton Road (now Mountain View Blvd) crossing and taking off down the track. What was it like to do this. I suppose you had to remember to keep you hands off the wheel. Did the front wheels turn with the curve of the tracks? By the way, the Jeeps were not the first high railers on the property. One ERIE MAGAZINE had an article on something I think they called "The Green Hornet", or something. It was a green (I think) Pontiac station wagon that Erie used to inspect track and ROW. The March calender evokes memories that are far from this location. November 10, 1963. I was a senior in high school lamenting the recent loss of the Boonton Line. It had been taken out of service between Little Falls and Paterson just about 10 days before this date. I would no longer see fast moving passenger or long freights pass by the Parish Drive station. Hard to believe that within 13 more years, Conrail would remove all long freights. Ed Montgomery The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List http://EL-List.railfan.net/ To Unsubscribe: http://Lists.Railfan.net/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------
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