Re: (rshsdepot) Selling items on list

["Don Dorflinger" <donnielee46_@_hotmail.com>]

Denville, NJ was DL&W, actually the junction between the Morristown Line and 
the Boonton Line. The Rockaway Branch (east end) also diverged here. Station 
(now long gone) was located in the "V" between the two sets of tracks. 
Interlocking tower stands east of the former station site on the Boonton 
Line. In the early days of the DL&W, the Rockaway Branch was actually the 
Main Line, and the trackage arrangement at Denville was quite different.

A technical point about Sparta Jct. The location ("SJ") was the junction of 
the NYS&W and the L&HR, but the Suskie provided the building and the 
operator. Based on old timetables, the L&HR seemed to perpetually have the 
right of way, and the Squeak was governed by a tilt board signal which was 
always left in the horizontal, or "Stop" position. When a Suskie train 
needed to cross the L&H main line, the operator had to move the "tilt" board 
(similar to a semaphore with the pivot point in the center) into a diagonal 
position, which shunted the L&H signals to red. S&W trains operated by Train 
Order in both directions at this point.

Don

>From: Seth Bramson <sbramson_@_bellsouth.net>
>Reply-To: rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net
>To: James Dent <james.dent_@_itochu.com>
>CC: rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net
>Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) Selling items on list
>Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 13:22:36 -0400
>
>And thank you!
>Now, several questions for you erstwhile and erudite ladies and gentlemen
>regarding names of railroads particular stations belonged to.  (Any info 
>would
>be appreciated; I am leaving momentarily for the Timonium RR Show, so if 
>you
>reply before Monday evening, I probably will not be able to "thank you" 
>until
>then.)  MQ Tower, Campbell Hall, NY/Denville, NJ (was this DL&W or a 
>"union"
>station?)/Greeley, CO (UP?)/Littleton, CO (D&RGW or somebody else?)/North
>Hawthorne/Ship Road Flag Stop west of Bryn Mawr, PA  (PRR or RDG?)/Sparta
>Jct./Steep Falls (B&M? MeC?)/Walden, NY (L&HR? Erie?)/Windsor Locks, CT 
>(NH?)  I
>am quite sure the North Hawthorne and the Sparta Jct. are NJ.  Would they 
>be
>NYS&W?  As always, thanks for your input!
>
>James Dent wrote:
>
> > The idea to limit the sales announcements to a particular day is a good 
>one,
> > especially for lists that regularly get such announcements.  But this 
>list
> > does not!
> >
> > In the last three and half months there have been two sales 
>announcements, a
> > volume that hardly needs regulating.
> >
> > If sales announcements increase significantly we can reconsider.  Thanks 
>for
> > everyone's input.
> >
>

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