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Re: (erielack) Mock-up Model of Lake Hopatcong Station (FY08-141)
Bill,
I have lots of "stuff" on Hoptacong in our files. Let me know if any of
this sounds of interest. I'd be happy to pull the folders and look:
DL&W RR--Chief Engineers Files--8035--Hoptacong Branch/Hoptacong Railroad
Company (1934-1937)
DL&W RR--Chief Engineers Files--8052--Bridges-Chester Junction--Over CNJ
Lake Hoptacong Branch (1948-1954)
DL&W RR--Superintendent of Signal Files--Trackage--020--Hoptacong, NJ
(1942-1954)
DL&W RR--Correspondence--General Superintendent--19714:
Agreement--Hoptacong Shore Railroad--Morris County Traction Company
(1907-1919)
DL&W RR--Chief Engineers Files--3634--(folder 1 of 2)--Crossing and Real
Estate--Hoptacong, NJ (1953-1960)
DL&W RR--Chief Engineers Files--3634--(folder 2 of 2)--Crossing and Real
Estate--Hoptacong, NJ (1922-1953)
DL&W RR--Chief Engineers Files--6666--Railroad issues--Hoptacong/Landing,
NJ (1935-1960)
DL&W RR--Chief Engineers Files--6756--Railroad issues--Hoptacong, NJ
(1918-1959)
DL&W RR--Chief Engineers Files--7314--Sign/billboard application
#2142--Lake Hoptacong, NJ (1954)
I do not claim to be an expert on these locations, but I would be happy to
pull, photocopy and review the stuff for you.
Patrick McKnight
Historian/Archivist
Steamtown NHS
570-340-5193
We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but
to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future
possible.-Alan Bloom
- -----"William E. Botkin" <webotkin_@_ecentral.com> wrote: -----
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From: "William E. Botkin" <webotkin_@_ecentral.com>
Date: 08/17/2008 02:35PM
Subject: (erielack) Mock-up Model of Lake Hopatcong Station
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Hi fellow modelers,
As some of you know, I am modeling the DL&W in the Port Morris,NJ area in
the 1952-53 era in HO. For years, fellow lister Mike DelVecchio used to
call my pike the Delaware, Lackawanna and Lumber since it had no scenery:)
I have finally started the scenery using Styrofoam sheets laminated
together to form the contours. In order to work on the landscape contours
at Lake Hopatcong, I needed to mock-up some scale models of the station
building, the pedestrian walkway, elevator towers and Landing Road
overbridge.
Thanks to Paul Tupaczewski's help with some current-day photos and actual
dimension of the station building and Landing Road bridge, I was able to
do some VERY rough mock-ups using scraps of the Styrofoam and scaling from
various photos in the Morning Sun books and photos purchased from Bob
Pennisi.
If anyone out there has actual drawings of any of the Hopatcong buildings
or structures, I would appreciate hearing from you off-line. Any
constructive comments on the mock-ups are also appreciated!
Bill Botkin
Centennial, CO
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