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From: tommy meehan tmeehan0421 AT gmail DOT com
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2023 11:29:34 -0500
Subject: Former Lackawanna Broad Street Freight Yard
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Thanks for posting the map Mark which I just saw in this morning's digest.
Very interesting.

I wonder if the two tracks shown on the map at the east end of the freight
house entered the building? It also shows a U.S. Express freight house east
of the main building. The map also shows a crane in the lower left part of
the freight yard. Also interesting to note on the map Mark posted was the
spur running east from the freight yard, crossing Ogden St. (McCarter
Highway had not yet been built) and extending all the way to the west shore
of the Passaic River. Looks like it served the J.C. Smith & Wallace Co.
warehouse. A New Jersey state corporate record shows Smith & Wallace opened
for business in 1890 and apparently closed down in 1940.

I'm attaching a screen cap from a Delaware Lackawanna & Western Industrial
guidebook published in 1952. The Broad Street yard was still in service and
the guide gave a brief description of the yard at that time. The Guide
lists the freight house as having a nine-car capacity.

tommy meehan


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