Interestingly, NONE of these were built by the DLW, and they were built 15 to 20 years later! The line from Morristown to Essex Fells (somewhat west of Caldwell) was built about 1900 for the McEwan paper interests (later Whippany Paperboard) as the Whippany River Railroad, ancestor of the Morristown & Erie, while the line from Essex Fells to Montclair was built for a group of citizens of Caldwell as the Caldwell Railroad and operated by the Montclair Railway, later part of the ERIE. The original route was to tunnel through the Verona area, but that was not completed and the line was built to Great Notch. The M&E pulled back from Essex Fells when the Erie abandoned the Caldwell Branch about 1966 and the tracks now end at its last customer in Roseland. The line from Morristown to Mendham was built about 1904 as part of the Rockaway Valley Railroad. It did not connect with the DLW; it ended a mile or two west of Speedwell Avenue near Lake Road. The west end connected with the Central Railroad of New Jersey at White House, about 25 miles away. This is now part of Patriot's Path. A line to Lake Hopatcong was built by Morris County Traction, but the DLW never went up along the lake. - --- Lynne <LKRanieri_@_comcast.net> wrote: > http://lists.railfan.net/listthumb.cgi?erielack-01-04-06 > > RailroadImprovementsMay191886Budget.jpg (image/jpeg, 291x827 > 106488 bytes, BF: 2.26 ppb) Gary R. Kazin DL&W Milepost R35.7 Rockaway, New Jersey __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL – Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
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