Re: (erielack) Erie Lackawanna-track abandonment question at Slateford.

[Michael DeCarlo <mikedc3_@_optonline.net>]

Bob,

This explains something I have wondered about for a long time perfectly. 
Thanks for always sharing your *Knowledge* of the EL so freely with us!!!

MDC

On 10/18/2012 8:58 PM, Dlw1el2_@_aol.com wrote:
> I have been away for a week. I see many of the three hundred emails I came
> home to this evening have this Slateford Jct area topic in their  heading.
> I have deleted most so I'm sorry if I'm duplicated some one  else's
> posting. Here is what I can contribute.
>   
> When the Cut Off was single tracked, starting in 1958 from west to east,
> one of the passing tracks that was kept was at Slateford. ( old track one  )
> The east switch was in NJ, west of Paulins kill  Viaduct.    The west end
> was well over a half a mile west of  where Slateford tower still stands. The
> east end was controlled from Port Morris  and the west end from E.
> Stroudsburg via CTC machines. The Old road switch was  still at the location of where
> Slateford Tower stands today, but was a hand  throw switch from the time
> the tower closed in 1951.
>   
> In the early 1960s   61 or 62??  the EL removed Slateford  siding by
> ripping up everything from the east end to the Old Road Switch.   At that location
> the Old Road connection  simply became  an extension of the siding   all
> the way up to the west switch of the  siding.  From that point on in time, and
> into the Conrail era,  Slateford Jct switch was actually a LONG half mile
> west of the Old  Slateford Interlocking plant. From the old Interlocking
> tower up to the new  junction gave the impression of  double track, but the
> track closest to the  river was the Old Road Connection Track.
>   
> Note: There was a long passing siding on the Old Road extending towards
> Portland, but that came off the Old Road Main right with in the old
> interlocking and had nothing to do with either main line tracks.
>   
> My track map in Vol 16 No 2 of the Diamond may be slightly inaccurate. The
> cross over at the old tower does not show on my track diagrams, but some
> employees I have talked to, implied it existed.
>   
>   
>   
> Bob Bahrs
>   
>   
>



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