Re: (erielack) Preserving history, or trying to at least

[Ed Montgomery <etmontgomery46_@_gmail.com>]

The underside of the Fanny Road bridge is very similar to the southbound
Route 23 overpass over the Boonton line in Mountain View.  That bridge was
built first with the northbound added some years later.  I think the
southbound was built in the 20's.  Both were removed with the realignment of
Route 23 in the 90's.  It's amazing to see how similar the construction was.

On another note, I was up in Wayne earlier this month and found the Parish
Drive bridge over the old Boonton Line closed.  I did some snooping around
and found some major work taking place on the bridge with a lot of Norfolk
Southern trucks around.  I figured they assumed ownership of this property.
 I asked one guy about it.  I always wondered when it was built.  He told me
it went up in 1939.  This bridge was similar to the one at Riverview Drive
in Totowa, and the old Comly Road bridge at Lincoln Park.  The Lackawanna
was in a massive grade-crossing reduction program at that time.  There has
been a lot of discussion about the Parish Drive bridge for years.  Some town
leaders want the bridge removed because of the significant grades on each
side of it.  However, it looks like NS is repairing it.  I assume there is a
lot of concrete repair necessary and the bridge supports probably need
replacement.  I don't think much maintenance has been done on this bridge
for its 72 years.  I think it was only painted once.

Ed Montgomery



On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Paul R. Tupaczewski <paultup_@_comcast.net>wrote:

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> EL-related stuff I'll post it.
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> The first two photos are detail views of the underside of the Fanny Road
> overpass in Boonton, NJ. These two shots were taken around 1993 when I
> heard
> the bridge was going to be replaced due to leaching of the concrete, so I
> went to get detail shots for my own personal modeling. It's a
> somewhat-typical DL&W concrete bridge (I've seen similar overpasses in
> Totowa and Clifton, I think?).   This bridge is now gone, replaced with a
> brand-new structure that at least tries to maintain the same "look" (though
> the new bridge doesn't have empty slots between its vertical stakes for
> "safety")
>
> The other two photos show a portion of Norda, a manufacturer of flavors and
> fragrances just west of the Fanny Road bridge. What always impressed me
> about this place (other than the various odors that wafted from it) was
> that
> spur that curved into plant property behind that chain-link fence on what
> appears to be about a 10% grade! It's very short, and that the top
> immediately levels off onto an elevated unloading/loading structure. (it
> appeared that it could take hopper/covered hopper loads OR tank car loads
> from this structure)   Anyone ever see a car spotted here?
>
> Enjoy!
>
>        - Paul
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