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RE: (erielack) CROXTON/JC MAP-one more try

I have a 1974 EL map which features a picture of the auto unloading facility 
in Jersey City, and there are tri-level racks in the picture.  Yes, the Erie 
tunnel had been double-track, and the single-track installation resulted in 
extra clearance.  I heard that the Jersey City auto facility for used for 
delivery autos for export!

- -bruce


>From: "Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_lucent.com>
>Reply-To: "Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_lucent.com>
>To: "'erielack_@_lists.elhts.org'" <erielack@lists.elhts.org>
>Subject: RE: (erielack) CROXTON/JC MAP-one more try
>Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 09:51:40 -0400
>
>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
>
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