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From: tommy meehan tmeehan0421 AT gmail DOT com
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 12:47:06 -0500
Subject: Newburgh Jct - old and/or new?
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Ray Wetzel's description sounds pretty accurate to me. I could quickly
find two official references for Arden Jct. The first is from a New York
State Board of Railroad Commissioners Report for 1901. It shows the
Newburgh & New York Branch extending 12.64 miles from Arden Jct.
to Vail's Gate Jct. (The latter being the junction with the original
Greycourt-
Newburgh line.)

The second reference is from the list of owned routes in the 1907 Erie
Annual Report. It shows the same thing: Arden Jct.-Vail's Gate Jct.,
12.64 miles. (The report notes that construction of what became the
Graham Line had been halted in March 1907 due to financial constraints,
and had been resumed in June 1907.)

I scanned and attached the relevant parts of both lists. Both are also
available on line through Google books. There are other references
to Arden Jct. in *Between the Ocean and the Lakes* by Edward Mott.


Ironically in several Erie passenger schedule listings in 19th century
* Official Guides*, the timetables do call the junction "Newburgh Jct." I
also see Arden
station listed in 1891(but not in 1884). I can't scan these at the moment
but
the 1891 schedule shows the mileage as:

1.0 Jersey City
42.0 Southfields
44.0 Arden
46.0 Newburgh Jct.
48.0 Turner's

I believe it was Turner's that was renamed Harriman. There are references
in
the Mott book to Arden station being the former Greenwood station. I don't
recall the details offhand but I believe there was an iron ore mining
operation
nearby (to the west) and a mining road (narrow gauge?) as well that
connected
to the Erie.

tommy meehan


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