Re: (rshsdepot) Selling items on list

[Seth Bramson <sbramson_@_bellsouth.net>]

Thank you all for your most gracious responses.  I was at the Timonium RR Show
over the weekend, hence the delay, and will advise on that soon as I get
organized.
Thanks again!

Don Dorflinger wrote:

> 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.
>

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