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Re: (erielack) More on the former DL&W Kingsland Branch

On 6/30/09 8:10 PM, "Paul R. Tupaczewski" <paultup_@_comcast.net> wrote:

> Thanks to a friend who forwarded me this additional info on the Kingsland
> Branch:
> 
> 
> 
> The ex-DL&W Harrison-Kingsland Branch is owned by NJT.  The track is
> basically intact the entire way although there have been some issues at
> driveway crossings.  There is also about 25 years of vegetation growing on
> it making it hard to even walk along in the summer.  NJT has leased some of
> the property to adjacent users but has NOT sold off any of the right of way
> needed to keep the line active if there was a reason to.
> 
> NS operates over portions at the north and south ends. At the north end they
> travel just a few hundred feet on the HK line to get to the switch to the
> "Greeks" plastic industries referred to by Bob Bahrs.  There is an
> additional side track serving "the Greeks" with a turnout on the NJT Main
> Line track 2 on the north side of the shop complex, this is known as "New
> Omega". 
> 
> The former trash loading operation (ITI??) which was located south of the
> "wye" switch was shut down in the early 1990's.  It was for this operation
> that the flat cars were formerly stored on the west leg of the wye (which
> crosses Orient Way at grade, right next to the former Kingsland Shop
> complex).
> 
> At the south end, NS accesses the HK branch from a "relatively" modern
> trailing point westbound turnout on M&E track 2. This is not on the
> historical alignment of the wye due to the construction of I-280 in the
> 1970's.  From the I-280 overhead bridge the track is on the historical
> alignment and NS operates northward to about the Harrison Avenue undergrade
> bridge, then backs down the former west leg of the wye to reach the primary
> customer, who gets numerous tank cars of vegetable oil.  The former west leg
> continues alongside I-280 and is used from time to time by J. Supor and sons
> to unload freight cars, most often
> Steel Coil cars. 
> 
> While things may have changed due to the economic slowdown, in the recent
> past NS had one assignment at Croxton (H8R) that handled the "greeks" at
> Kingsland M-W-F and went to the vegetable oil place in Harrison T-Th-Sa.
> When H8R goes to/from Harrison, it sometimes travels via HX (reverse) - West
> End (reverse) then west on the M&E. Other times it goes out the east end of
> Croxton to the Northern Branch, onto the P&H at Hack, Westbound Running
> track to CP Karny, then via the Center Street Branch and crosses all the way
> over the M&E at Kearny Jct.
> 
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The "Greeks"  actually are or maybe, were, Koreans.
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