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From: Robert Bahrs rrbahrs AT gmail DOT com
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 16:05:05 -0500
Subject: Re: (erielack) Question about DL&W Bergen Jct in 1900
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I had remembered this photo I had with all the tracks, but I had forgotten
that they were all NYS&W and that the Lackawanna was just two tracks as Mr
Truesdale and the Article suggests. I should have looked at it first.
Thanks for sharing the article. That mammoth project allowed the
Lackawanna to expand ( double ) the tracks they had on both lines, and of
course build West End tower as we know it today. It being one of the first
all-concrete Lackawanna towers. The attached view looks north before the
start of the project.

Bob Bahrs

On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 8:35 AM tommy meehan wrote:

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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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