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Re: (erielack) Drew Chemical; Tankcars

    Bill......having drunk the water in Jersey City when the roundhouse was 
still operating on Pavonia Ave. the inhabitants might regard it as an 
improvement. Truly, I'm amazed the Company got away with it as long as they did. 
The smell was obvious for quite a distance - not just at the bridge.
     As I've said before, when I didn't really see something or know it, I use a 
word I learned at night school at the State University at Binghamton History 
Dept. The word is APOCRYPHA - i. e. not supported by evidence. This involves a 
little problem at the Conklin roundhouse where the employees began complaining 
about the taste of the dinking water in the yard office & roundhouse. After much 
foot-dragging, it was discovered the railroad was still getting it's water from 
a pumphouse near the bridge where the mainline crosses the Susquehanna River. I 
began looking for the remains and saw a concrete foundation on the south side of 
the tracks near the West abutment. It is alleged that a pollywog came out of a 
tap in the bunkroom. There was a screen filter & it may have been OK when the 
water went into the steamengines..........

Walt Smith




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From: "ShepRail_@_aol.com" <ShepRail@aol.com>
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Sent: Fri, August 13, 2010 12:37:20 PM
Subject: Re: (erielack) Drew Chemical; Tankcars


Boonton "Water" was not handled at Paterson Junction Yard.
Instead, this traffic typically moved head-out on through
freight trains to and from West Boonton. This placement
eventually resulted in a number of structural car failures, 
especially after trains were rerouted via Great Notch. 

As Walt Smith mentioned recently, tank cars used in this service
were once unloaded into the Hackensack River at West Secaucus 
on a stub track aligned with the former DL&W Hackensack River 
Bridge. In later years, these tank cars were unloaded at Croxton 
Yard into the sewer system, thereby avoiding discharge into the 
Rockaway River and, by extension, the reservoir that supplied 
Jersey City with drinking water.

Given these consequences and the limited number of tank cars
assigned to protect this service, both DL&W and EL endeavored 
to expedite the handling of this traffic.

Bill Sheppard


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