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Re: (erielack) RailRoads in New Jersey, VOL. 2

Gary, much thanks for the corrections as I've agreed to buy the book from
Tim Stuy. I'll surely bear your notes in mind while perusing this otherwise
fine piece on early NJ rail history.

Todd K. Stearns

- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary R. Kazin" <gkazin_@_yahoo.com>
To: "EL List" <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: (erielack) RailRoads in New Jersey, VOL. 2


> --- "Gary R. Kazin" <gkazin_@_yahoo.com> wrote:
> > My copy is autographed by Cunningham.
> >
> > They conveniently included a telephone number on the frontspiece
> > photo: 973-579-2442.  I called this afternoon and found that
> Cunningham is currently working on several local history books, but
> not on any railroad books.  I indicated that there was interest in
> him doing Volume II.  BTW, that was to go to about 1970 (I'd say it
> should go to 1976, right up to Conrail), so there's certainly room
> for Volume III...
> >
> > I found a number of errors in Volume I.  Here they are; I've
> > probably missed some:
> > - Page 10 - Left column, line 21: Conrail was not nationwide and
> > Amtrak is spelled incorrectly.
> > - Page 235 - Photo caption: TWO Bridges, not NEW Bridges.
> > - Page 236 - Left column, lines 30-33: The Lehigh & Hudson and
> > Lehigh & New England did not cross the Hudson River; they didn't
> > even reach it.  Both railroads ended at Maybrook, NY, at a yard
> > west of the Poughkeepsie Bridge.  They both crossed the DELAWARE
> > River.
> > - Page 238 - Right column, third line from bottom, UNIONVILLE not
> > UNION.
> > - Page 241 - The Pennsylvania, Poughkeepsie and Boston stock
> > certificate does not show the Poughkeepsie bridge.  This error
> > appears in several other books and one of them is probably the
> > source of Cunningham's error here.  The Poughkeepsie bridge was
> > not rbrn ONthe PP&B; it was built by the Central Railroad of New
> > England and opened in 1889 before the PP&B was formed in 1891.
> > Soon after, the New Haven took over the Central of New England.
> >   The stock certificate shows, very logically, the PP&B's OWN
> > bridge over the DELAWARE River between Columbia, NJ, and Portland,
> > PA.  This bridge was demolished in 1961 or 1962 after the PP&B's
> > successor Lehigh & New England was abandoned.  The bridge was just
> > upstream of a wooden covered bridge washed out in the 1950's.  A
> > new vehicular bridge was built downstream of the site and a steel
> > footbridge was built on the supports left from the covered bridge.
> > Some L&NE bridge supports can still be found on both sides of the
> > Delaware.
> > - Page 248 - Left column, lines 10-13: The L&NE was abandoned in
> > 1961 and demolished.  Conrail was formed in 1976.  Cunningham has
> > confused the two 'Lehigh' lines; the Lehigh & HUDSON became part
> > of Conrail.  The L&H was jointly owned by four or five railroads
> > which all went into Conrail.
> > - Page 297 - Left column, next to last line: The driving wheels
> > could not have been 60-foot-7/8 inches.  They probably were not
> > 60 7/8 inches either, as such small wheels would have limited
> > engine speed.  Later in the text, he mentions engines with 80 inch
> > drivers and here it should probably be 80 7/8 inches.  THAT would
> > be a high speed engine.


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