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From: "Paul R DOT Tupaczewski" paultup AT comcast DOT net
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:46:56 -0500
Subject: Cabride on the EL, part 3
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Continuing east!

021: Just east of the Boonton station (looks like some homeless have set up
a shelter here at the right). Note those TALL power poles along the tracks!
That switch at the left was for a short run-around the EL had here for crews
working Drew Chemical/PVO.

022: Another transient on the tracks here (oddly, I've never seen any there
before or after this ride). You can just see a Drew Chemical production
building in the haze at the left, behind the trees. We're approaching the
Wootton St. overpass in the distance - a common place to find me in my youth
watching trains. :) That attached shot of 927 is roughly at the same
location, though there are a lot more trees in my shot!

023: Wootton St overpass. The signals are new, installed by NJT (EL never
had signals here - NJT made the blocks longer). The old main, used as a
switching lead by EL, is quickly disappearing at the left.

024: Past Wootton St. The shopping center at the right is all new (see the
attached view of 3352, same location - that signal bridge is gone, as well
as Treadway Trucking at the right). The track at the far left led to the
"new" yard in Boonton that was rarely used. (long story)

025: Fulton St. crossing at the east edge of town (we're looking towards
Montville). The attached view of 1231 is taken at this exact location.

026: In Montville, about to cross Interstate 287. This bridge was built
around 1989.

027: Approaching the rural (and still rural today) Abbott Ave. crossing in
Montville.

028: About to cross over NJ State Route 202. The water tower and building at
the right is the former Thermal American Fused Quartz Company, an EL
customer. Oh yeah, this is where the massive derailment happened on the
Boonton Line in the 1960s (the attached "Wreck" shot is looking from the
ground at the bridge we're about to go over)

029: Approaching the Towaco (pronounced "tow-AH-co") station. The EL
actually had a station here until the early, and NJT actually rebuilt a
station that's similar in appearance to the EL one today.

030: Coming into Lincoln Park, I snapped this abandoned siding. Bill
Sheppard's diagram book doesn't show it, so this industry post-dates EL.

Digest for now... :)

- Paul



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