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Re: (erielack) Last Run, Great Notch station to close Jan. 16th (2)
For me, it's somewhat sad to hear about Great Notch soon to be disappearing
off the map as a station stop...
Great Notch was where I first became enamored w/the EL (helped out by living
within earshot of the Caldwell Branch in Verona) and had my first exposure
to EL mainline trains there...
In the early- to mid '70's, the EL was sending a considerable amount of
frieght traffic via Scranton and Port Morris, providing the ability to see
several freights in an afternoon, plus seeing the Silver Lake drill,
Greenwood Lake drill and the Totowa Routabout headed east before the
commuter rush started...
I haven't been back there since '88, and I'm sure it'd be difficult to see
what it's like today compared to when I was last there - Thankfully, I've
got some EL shots to remember the area from...
Rich Behendt
ELHS #384
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paul.tupaczewski_@_alcatel-lucent.com>
To: "EL Mail List" <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 3:32 PM
Subject: RE: (erielack) Last Run, Great Notch station to close Jan. 16th
> Bob Gillis asked about Todd Hollritt's photos:
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>> Were the October pictures taken looking east?
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> http://lists.railfan.net/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-12-23-09/DSCN2087.jpg
> This is looking west. The junction with the Caldwell Branch would have
> been right at the end of the long string of cars.
>
> http://lists.railfan.net/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-12-23-09/DSCN2088.jpg
> Looking east, the station platform is at the left (the station building
> used to stand right here)
>
> http://lists.railfan.net/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-12-23-09/DSCN2089.jpg
> Looking east, I'm assuming the train is a Great Notch turn ready to go
> back to Hoboken?
>
> http://lists.railfan.net/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-12-23-09/DSCN2090.jpg
> Looking east again. The station was right where the bus shelter at the
> left sits.
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>> Was the catenary extended so far beyond the MSU yard to
>> permit trains to to enter from the west/north end of the yard?
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> Yes, and also to facilitate backing out this end of the yard.
>
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>> why would a Manhattan Direct train back into the yard.
>
> I don't think he's backing in, I think he's ready to head east on Track 1.
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>> I thought the old station building was on the North (compass
>> side of the tracks)and right next to Notch Road.
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> That is correct (see my comments above about the station location)
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>> The
>> townhouse complex was built in the late 1990s south of the
>> tracks and east of Long Hill Road.
>
> Those townhouses come from the EL era - they appear in EL photos from the
> 1970s.
>
> - Paul
>
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