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RE: (erielack) Lackawanna and Concrete

What I find interesting is the planning Lackawanna put into these bridge designs.  Someone must of have been considering the increase in automobile traffic back then.  It would have been very easy to make the Taylortown Road Bridge a one lane hole-in-the wall but they didn't.  The same goes for the road widths of the underpasses on the Cut-off.  The engineering department was looking ahead making sure they wouldn't have to come back in 15-20 years and install a bridge to accommodate a wider roadway.

Ed Montgomery
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- -----Original Message-----
From: Gary R. Kazin [mailto:gkazin_@_yahoo.com]
Sent: Fri 4/4/2008 11:06 PM
To: EL Mail List
Subject: Re: (erielack) Lackawanna and Concrete
 
- --- "Montgomery, Edward T" <Edward.Montgomery_@_fcps.edu> wrote:
> In the early 20s, DL&W was prefabricating bridge decks at the
> Kingsland shops and dropping them in place.  Two interesting photos
> to me were of bridge projects at Convent and Montville.  The
> Convent grade separation included a bridge for the Morris County
> Traction as well as the railroad.  I'm wondering if that bridge is
> still in place today?

Both bridges are still in use; the trolley route is now a county park
called the Traction Line Trail.

> The Montville bridge at Taylortown Road is
> at the station location.  I never saw that angle, free of trees and
> other foliage before.  I suppose the steps are still there.  Steps
> my great uncle probably used frequently commuting to New York in
> the 20s and 30s.  

They are, though the station has been closed for decades and there is
no building there.


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


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