Paul B. asks about the "bigmap": > I > have a couple > more questions about this: > 1. did Lehigh Valley own the National Docks branch, and if > so, where did LV > ownership end and West Shore begin? I thought the National Docks was jointly owned by LV and CNJ. The National Docks (and the West Shore) ended at Weehawken at NYC's yard. > 2. My SPV Northeast atlas (1993) shows all trackage north of > the east end of > the Erie tunnel as abandoned, including the Weehawken tunnel. Is this > accurate? As of 1993, no. As of today, yes - sort of. The former National Docks/Erie Weehawken Branch right-of-way now hosts the NJ Transit Hudson-Bergen Light Rail line. > 3. What is the clearance in the Erie tunnel? It must have > been substantial > for CR to have built a connector to it in 1980. I've seen photos of autoracks coming through it. Wasn't the Erie tunnel originally double-tracked? It looks like they removed one track and centered the other track for greater clearance. > 4. Current routing for CSX trains off the River line: do they > come down the > old Susie-Q, go through Marion Jct, and cross Newark harbor on the LV > bridge, or do they take the 1998 connector onto the NEC and proceed to > Hunter twr? OK, here comes a big mess again: CSX trains come down the River Line to North Bergen, where some of them terminate. Others continue down the old Northern/NYS&W to Marion Jct. to South Kearny yard. I'm not quite sure how trains would be routed if they needed to go south of there. - Paul The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
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