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From: Mark Schmitt erie3319 AT gmail DOT com
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 11:46:15 -0500
Subject: Re: (erielack) Greenwood Lake Branch & Boonton Line Questions
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Ken,

It was not a damaged bridge that caused the Caldwell Branch to be
embargoed, but this wash out near Overbrook. As can be seen, this could
easily have been repaired, but the branch was losing money and was not
deemed worth the trouble.

Mark

On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 10:06 AM Paul Tupaczewski
wrote:

>
> >Google Earth now shows that the swing bridge at "DB"
> >has been left open to river traffic. Given the height of
> >the "WR" swing bridge above the Passaic River, that
> >swing span remains closed to river traffic, however.
>
> I also think that the Passaic is no longer dredged that far north anymore
> - if memory serves, the rails on top of the bridge have been "fixed" since
> the late 1980s?
>
> - Paul
>
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