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From: Paul Tupaczewski paultup AT comcast DOT net
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2022 07:06:05 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: New book: "Walking the Old Boonton Line"
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I saw this book in a preview article in the new issue of Weird NJ and immediately placed a pre-order, since this was due out the end of this month. Much to my surprise, it looks like Amazon has it in stock NOW and I got the book a day later!

This is sort of a sequel to Wheeler Antabanez' last book, "Walking the Newark Branch," and the book is supposed to be a retrospective book on the Boonton Line between Montclair and the Jersey City waterfront. This was the part that was "railbanked" by Norfolk Southern after NJT reconfigured the line to the current-day Montclair-Boonton Line. Now that NS has announced it is donating the line to become a walking path, the author wanted to capture the line in its current abandoned state before it is paved over and loses a lot of its character.

The photography is well done, and there's a certain art-book quality to it. The author's personal family stories in the first few pages do a good job framing his personal paste experience as a child with the line, too. There is an accompanying video that will be posted on his website later this month. But until then, this book is really a gem! Highly recommended.

- Paul



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