RE: (erielack) Commuter trains id'ed by marker lights (was Photo for You)

["Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_lucent.com>]

When did they start doing combined signals? (wasn't the EL Boonton Line something like one white and two red?)

	- Paul


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken [mailto:erie910_@_harborbeach.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 9:02 AM
> To: Dale Madison; erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
> Subject: 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.
> >
> >At 09:16 AM 7/1/02 -0400, Dale Madison wrote:
> >
> >>>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
> >>
> >>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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Dale
> >
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