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RE: (erielack) NJ TRANSIT

My question is, who serviced the old Pabst Blue Ribbon beer plant down the line?



Fred Stratton 

Boonton & Greenwood Lake RR in HO Scale

Salisbury, NC 28147 
 


 

> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 07:57:01 -0400
> From: robertgillis_@_verizon.net
> To: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
> Subject: Re: (erielack) NJ TRANSIT
> 
> 
> 
> Richard Pennisi wrote:
> > Ed,
> > 
> > In the summer of 1966, I hired out as an agent operator for EL while
> > I was a Junior in High School. I worked Ampere fas ticket agent for a
> > month. The original branch tracks at street level were still there
> > in the floor of the baggage room, with the new track elevated above.
> > It was a wierd thing to see. My next assigment after Ampere was
> > ticket agent at Upper Montclair for a few days.
> > 
> > Yes, It was Westinghouse that Ampere was named for. The Pusher out
> > of Harrison drilled Westinghouse off track 1 several times a week
> > some time after 11 am. It then went up the branch and crossed over at
> > Montclair and drilled any consignees off track 2 on the way East.
> 
> That section of East Orange is known as Ampere, probably because so 
> many Westinghouse, GE and Worthington employees lived there. The 
> station was named after the neighborhood.
> 
> GE manufactured control at the plant just south of Bloomfield Avenue 
> and next to the Garden State Parkway. worthington manufactures smaller 
> pumps at a plant east of the station and across the street from the 
> white former bread bakery.
> 
> bob gillis
> 
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