- --- "mail_@_joshuakblay.com" <mail@joshuakblay.com> wrote: > Any ideas on how to figure what would be 60 miles from the tower/bridge > either towards Binghamton, Hoboken, or Bloombsuburg? What DL&W milepost > is Scranton? From a Sep 15, 1918 timetable reprint done by Homer Hill in 1977, distances from Hoboken via Boonton Line and the North Jersey Cutoff: 78.2 - Water Gap 134.2 - Scranton, 56.0 miles from Water Gap station. The tower is west of Scranton station and the river is east Water Gap station, so it's nearly 60 miles from the river to Bridge 60, but the bridges were numbered from the WEST so that's irrelevant to the question. This was my first guess, but it's wrong. 192.7 - Binghamton 58.5 miles from Scranton, less from Bridge 60. If the bridges were numbered about 1900 (as Pat suggests), after the Sloane era, most likely they are just numbered in sequence from Binghamton. I wonder what number they gave to Tunkhannok Viaduct... Gary R. Kazin DL&W Milepost R35.7 Rockaway, New Jersey __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
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