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From: tommy meehan tmeehan0421 AT gmail DOT com
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 08:33:31 -0500
Subject: Question about DL&W Bergen Jct in 1900
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I thank Mark Schmitt for answering this question and steering me to the
article in the ENGINEERING RECORD of (not June) but July 23, 1910. Mystery
solved. As Mark stated, the M&E and Boonton Branch were both double-track
in this area, so apparently Truesdale meant all four M&E/Boonton tracks.
I'm pasting a link to the article below, it's available on the HathiTrust
Digital Library website.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015084511859&view=1up&seq=126

I'm also attaching the images from the article. The image on the left is a
track map, the image on the right is a photo of the area, taken looking
north I think, while the work was progressing. The area was quite different
back then but recognizable from the way it appeared many years later. The
article states the work began in earnest in March 1909 and was mostly
completed by December. It involved moving both the M&E tracks and the
Boonton Branch tracks to a temporary alignment. This was to allow the
permanent grade to be raised ten feet (and the NYS&W-Erie tracks to be
lowered ten feet) and bridges to be installed. The article states there
were almost 300 passenger trains on weekdays, plus many freight and
switching moves, across the diamonds so it was a badly needed project.

In fact, before Susquehanna opened it's Edgewater terminal in 1894, they
interchanged a heavy coal traffic with Lackawanna through the track
connection there, for movement to Hudson River piers. So it must have
become quite a bottleneck.

tommy meehan


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