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Re: (erielack) Uranium shipments from the Sussex Branch.

Mike,

If you have the pdf files you already know more than I on this one.  All 
I can confirm is that there was a Charlotte Mine near Cranberry Lake. 
My 1918 Vals, which are way too early for this, show a stub end siding 
facing north just below Cranberry Lake.  Can't find anything on a 'road' 
going to the mine from the tracks.

Someone must know about this as plenty of folks from that time are still 
with us -- and they had cameras.

Dave


> Hi, Does anyone on the list know anything about Uranium being shipped out
> from the Sussex branch during the late DLnW and early EL years?
> 
> Just South of Cranberry Lake is a mine called The Charlotte Uranium 
> mine. It
> was open from 1958 to 1968. During those years 95 tons of ore were removed.
> I have just gotten access to an invite only section of a mining web site
> where several .PDF files are stored. One of them describes part of the
> operation here. It says the ore was loaded into a truck and then into 2 
> cars
> on the "nearby DLnW RR" The ore was then shipped to Snake River Wyoming.
> There was no siding to the mine which was a good 1500 feet from the RR.
> 
> Does anyone remember anything about this? I'm wondering where and how 
> the RR
> cars were loaded. Since the mine closed in 68, and Dave Rutan's site has 
> the
> Sussex Branch out of service by 1969, Could this have been the last traffic
> over the Sussex Branch?
> 
> I would share this .PDF if I could but, like I said it's on an invite only
> site. You can however see what this mine looked like in 1969 here:
> 
> http://www.abandonedmines.net/charlotte/charlotte.html
> 
> You can access this mine off of the Sussex Branch Trail. If you walk from
> Waterloo Rd. find the second sign marking the "Iron Mine Trail" (the trail
> is a loop) and walk in. To the left you will see a mine tunnel going in
> about 10 feet into the hill. Make a right here and go down the hill. You
> will find the mine remains near a big pile of mine waste rock. Most of the
> mine has been filled\covered but there is 1 shaft left that is blocked with
> iron bars.
> 
> I'd be interested to hear any more about this obscure EL operation.
> 
> Mike D.


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