RE: (erielack) ES99/SE98

["Paul Brezicki" <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net>]

You may be correct about the route having a higher TT speed limit. However,
if the line is dotted with slow orders, the practical speed limit might be
10 mph. With a long train, there's no point wasting fuel to speed up when
you're going to have to throttle down again right away.

Paul B

 

Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:50:12 -0400

From: "Daniel G. McFadden" <dan.mcfadden_@_gmail.com>

Subject: RE: (erielack) ES99/SE98

 

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I question the 10 mph speed limit that has been mentioned for the High

Bridge Branch. I know the freights did not barrel along but I think they did

better than 10 mph. The 1971 CNJ employees TT shows a limit of 35 mph from

High Bridge to Califon and 30 mph from Califon to Hopatcong Jct. A 1967 TT

shows the same. Even near the end of service in 1976, I remember seeing a

job come through Long Valley and it was surely doing better than 10 mph, at

least in my memory.

 

With the renewed interest in these trains, I went searching for another view

and found a shot of SE98 at Hainesburg on Sunday April 9, 1972. I have not

been to this location in decades but I believe I was standing on the old

NYS&W roadbed.

 

I remember seeing ES99 on several occasions but just this once for SE98. Was

SE98 generally nocturnal?

 

Dan McFadden

 



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