Bill, You will recall from the Conrail 1983 map of Northern New Jersey, the piece of track from just south (RR east) to just north of County Rd shows as - ------(dashed), meaning trackage rights! I remember standing there listening to Walter complaining that we had shifted his track over into the weeds when we were rebuilding the Northern. As I recall we resolved the issue with a trade-we got ownership of that piece of track, and Walter was permitted to construct a straightaway (direct) connection between the Southern Tier connection into Maybrook and the L&HR. For those not familiar with the trackage, this eliminated the requirement for NYS&W trains to pull into Maybrook and run around their train to continue east via the L&H. In those days these trains were primarily the SeaLands to Little Ferry, and Hanjin and NYK to Frank Folise's Resources Terminal. Jim Dalberg The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
This HTML page is © 2000-2009 Blue Moon Online System and The Railfan Network
This page and the data contained therein may not be reproduced
for any form of commercial use without the explicit permission
of J. Henry Priebe Jr. or his duly authorized agent.