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From: Jim S pumpers19 AT yahoo DOT com
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 14:00:40 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: EL Mail List Digest V3 #6992
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Joel, I saw those same pictures in Taber (vol 1), pages 88 and 89. I scanned and attached them here.Can someone match them up to the tower pictures we have seen in the last few weeks? They don't look offhand by memory to match any that were posted, but I didn't actually go back and check them all.
Also, Taber also says that at the original Bergen crossing (where the M&E alignment to the Erie Long Dock tunnel crossed the old Paterson and Hudson River RR), the M&E tunnelled "through a sand bank" under the Paterson and Hudson River RR. That's also what is shown on the maps I posted last week, although from 12 or more years later. But Taber says there was never a grade crossing at that junction.
Jim S.
PS, Joel, no advice from me about decluttering. My day will come...

On Thursday, February 13, 2020, 05:35:07 AM EST, EL Mail List Digest wrote:


EL Mail List Digest Thursday, February 13 2020 Volume 03 : Number 6992


Subjects:

(erielack) RE: EL Mail List Digest V3 #6991

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Message-ID: <5e4455dc.1c69fb81.414fa.07dd@mx.google.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 14:45:28 -0500
From: Joel McEachen
Subject: (erielack) RE: EL Mail List Digest V3 #6991

Being primarily interested in the trains and plant of the DL&W (and EL) I knew from living in Leonia from 1945 to 1967 on the Northern RRofNJ (and travels to Syracuse and Chicago,) the recent lack of real discussion of the railroad left me out in the cold. This was the first =E2=80=9Cconversation=E2=80=9D that really got my interest, and I wonder if those left who knew the operation of the railroad were narrowed down to those living in the area still who can identify old pictures. Marion Junction was visible to me I think in the Tonnele Ave area, from PRR trains using the Hudson tunnels, Northern Branch rides to NY, my one ride to Exchange Pl on PRR from Rutgers New Brunswick to the NJ docked =E2=80=9CAlexander HamiltonE2=80=9D in 1956 or 57 for the =E2=80=9CAll-University Boatride=E2=80=9D passing under the almost completed Tappan Zee Bridge Now for fun I check Google maps for possible routes from Erie tracks to Stewart AFB but I=E2=80=99ll never live that long. Thanks for!
the posts. I had =E2=80=98Trains=E2=80=99, =E2=809CRailfan&Railroad=E2=80=9D, RTN, PTJ back to 1970 or so, tried to find someone to take them but no one I contacted indicated any interest (several retailers, officers of the ELHS and the local NHRRHS, friends) so I had to give some away, dumped most. It=E2=80=99s a dog to ship them (we hope to move to Minnesota soon,) it killed me to dump many, I was leaving random copies in doctors=E2=80=99 offices and Chinese takeout restaurants. After reading this exchange, I looked in Taber and found a few really good pictures of the original Marion crossing area (before my last major back operation, the neurosurgeon said my back would look like railroad tracks.) I also located a near new copy of the book =E2=80=9CFrom the Hills to the Hudson=E2=80=9D and ordered it to add to my near 2 dozen books on DL&W, EL, Pullman, and NYW&B rr=E2=80=99s. What are some suggestions on aging, decluttering, and moving across country? I had near 1,200 !
books primarily on theology, history, small collections on rai!
lroads, airships (Navy Reserve at Lakehurst days,) and Navy jets. Fr. Joel McEachen in CT Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: EL Mail List DigestSent: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 5:33 AM



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