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From: "J DOT Henry Priebe Jr DOT " root AT bluemoon DOT net
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2020 03:09:18 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: (erielack) More Bergen Junction details
"Sanborn_1896_Bergen_Jct_Area.jpg" - image/jpeg, 1996x1452 (24bit)


Here is the Bergen Jct Sanborn map converted to a JPeg image.

Henry

J. Henry Priebe Jr. Blue Moon Internet Corp Network Administrator
www.railfan.net Railfan Network Services

On Tue, 4 Feb 2020, Jim S wrote:

>
> I dug up an 1896 Sanborn Map of the Bergen Jct. area. It is attached to this email as a pdf - I don't know if that's the right way to do it or not.
> The tracks where the M&E crosses the NYS&W and Paterson & Hudson (Erie) look like what we've seen in recent posts and links. Often these maps show towers, but for some reason "Tower 22" is not on this map.
> What's interesting is the Patterson and Newark RR (Erie owned or affiliated) coming in from the top, crossing the NYSW and Paterson and Hudson, and then going on to the Erie Long Dock tunnel off the bottom of the map. These used to be M&E tracks - what the M&E used before they built their own tunnel and the approaches to it for the Boonton line and the main line shown on this map.
> Note that the Paterson and Newark tracks are grade-separated where they cross the NYS&W and the Patterson and Hudson already in 1896. I don't know if that grade-separation dates back to when the M&E first built the tracks in the early 1860's, or if it happened later. In my email yesterday I guessed the crossing was originally at grade, but maybe I was wrong.
> One other note. Not long after the Erie did a major track upgrade in the area around 1910 or so, as part of the overall Bergen Arches project, they abandoned the ex-M&E bridge that the Paterson and Newark used to cross the Hackensack river, routing the traffic over the Erie DB bridge to the north. The stub end of the Paterson and Newark tracks left on the NJ side of the old M&E bridge were later used to serve Koppers.
> Jim S
> >From Archives@Railfan.net
> Message-ID:
> References: <202002021033.012AX1WG064640@net.bluemoon.net> <750852259.410513.1580654679056@mail.yahoo.com>
> In-Reply-To: <750852259.410513.1580654679056@mail.yahoo.com>
> Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2020 10:42:11 -0500
> From: Robert Bahrs
> Subject: Re: (erielack) Re: EL Mail List Digest V3 #6982
>
> Nice summary Jim. So from your statements, the tower with 22 on it was a
> Lackawanna Tower, and also the darker colored one with the front overhang.
> Thanks.
>
> Bob


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