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Re: (erielack) Then and Now At Milepost JC15 in Montclair
Back in 1963 when the original Boonton Like was cut there was no MGM in
Totowa requiring a lot of freight deliveries. That came later. I remember
seeing carloads of salt dropped off and spotted on the new spur west of the
Route 23 bridge in Mountain View. I'm not sure who spotted the cars
there. It could have been the Greenwood Lake Haul. I assumed that another
crew took the cars down to Thomas's Bakery and other customers. I always
wondered if there was some kind of union agreement regarding what crews
could make deliveries on former DL&W lines. Any thoughts on that? After
MGM started taking deliveries all of this changed.
Ed Montgomery
On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 1:40 PM, JG at graytrainpix <graytrainpix_@_hotmail.com
> wrote:
> Paul, re: Little Falls vs. Totowa Roustabout . . .
>
> Here's how Artie Erdman remembered it in a post from 1-29-99:
>
> *** The Totowa Roustabout or "Little Falls Job" was shown on the
> Dispatcher Train Sheet as "FS" and was not assigned a number. This
> assignment was a former DL&W job and as such only worked former DL&W
> locations, such as the Totowa Spur. The work west of Mountain View was
> performed by the Greenwood Lake Haul, which was a former Erie job and
> worked this former Erie branch. ***
>
> Personally, I always called it the Little Falls Roustabout when working at
> DB Draw, and no one ever objected.
>
> Interestingly, I looked at a few 1965 block sheets from DB Draw for
> weekdays, and there were no signs of a Little Falls (or Totowa) Roustabout.
> I'm going to guess that the Totowa spur work was once handled by the second
> Boonton Drill out of Dover, but please correct if wrong. When I first
> worked DB in 1971 the Little Falls job was running out of Croxton, so the
> train must have been switched to Croxton sometime in those 5 interim years.
>
> It remained for Conrail to give standardized names to every train
> movement. I can think of an example of a triple-identity local on the EL,
> actually two such locals. On the NY&NY, the drill out of Croxton that
> covered everything to Hackensack was originally called either "671" or "the
> lower Hack" (versus the "upper Hack" which worked Hackensack north, which
> could also be called "the Hayshaker"). After 1968, with growing industry
> in the Bergen meadows (ah, those were the days . . . expanding local
> freight business in northern NJ, imagine that!!), the 671 was split into
> two jobs. Some called them "1st-671" and "2nd-671". Some called them "the
> first Hack" and "the second Hack". Then sometime in the 70's, some crews
> referred to these jobs as "the Teterboro Drill" and "the Carlstadt Drill".
>
> And yet, somehow the work got done . . .
>
> Jim Gerofsky
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