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Re: (erielack) Commuter trains id'ed by marker lights (was Photo for You)
Listers,
Found an Erie Railroad timetable from October 25, 1959. Here are the light
identifications for Hoboken then:
2 White: Main Line and Newark Branch
2 Red: Greenwood Lake Division
2 Blue: Northern Branch
I do recall from riding the NJ & NY that used 2 yellow lights.
Sadly, all that is gone. But progress is progress.
Ken B.
At 10:48 PM 7/1/02 -0500, Ken wrote:
>If memory serves me correctly, yellow lights were NJ & NY/Pascack Valley,
>blue were Northern Branch, red were Greenwood Lake, and white was Main
>Line. There was one line that had 2 colored and one white, but I can't
>remember which one that it was.
>
>Ken B.
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>At 09:16 AM 7/1/02 -0400, Dale Madison wrote:
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>>>From: intercityrailpal_@_netscape.net
>>>Subject: Re: (erielack) Photo for You!
>>>
>>>Hi George...I know someone on the list can help us with your question.
>>>My answer is Yes. The color lights did mean something. The lights lined
>>>up with the lights on the timetable.(They were advertised on the front
>>>of some of the timetables.) Example: I think red was the Boonton line.
>>>White was the Lackawanna mainline. I don't remember the details. Someone
>>>with more information please write...I would like to know the whole
>>>story on these lights too!..........Lance
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>>Oh my! Another memory stirred! As a former timetable collector (what
>>timetables are there to collect now?), I remember looking at the EL
>>commuter ones and thinking "umm, lights to indicate which train went
>>where?" Neat idea. Better than trying to read destination signs in the dark.
>>
>>Thanks for resurrecting another forgotten tidbit.
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>>Dale
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