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From: fred heilich fheilich AT msn DOT com
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 21:11:23 -0600
Subject: RE: (erielack) Steamtown Images--February 25, 2015 (C0571 thru
C0575) IDs x2
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Original and Present Power Dams at Columbia, NJ
Fred Heilich

> From: fheilich@msn.com
> To: erielack@lists.railfan.net
> Subject: RE: (erielack) Steamtown Images--February 25, 2015 (C0571 thru C0575) IDs x2
> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 19:12:51 -0600
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> The Word Attachment does come over. This is a shot of the original Power Dam in Columbia before the dam was filled. This could be the building in C074
> Fred Heilich
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> > From: fheilich@msn.com
> > To: erielack@lists.railfan.net
> > Subject: RE: (erielack) Steamtown Images--February 25, 2015 (C0571 thru C0575) IDs x2
> > Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 18:35:51 -0600
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> > Attached are photos of the two power dams at Columbia. The last photo is of the original dam before the lake was backed up. The building in the view may be the brick building in C074.
> > Fred Heilich
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> > > From: fheilich@msn.com
> > > To: erielack@lists.railfan.net
> > > Subject: RE: (erielack) Steamtown Images--February 25, 2015 (C0571 thru C0575) IDs x2
> > > Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 13:35:33 -0600
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> > > The NYS&W crossed the power lake at Columbia on the Paulins Kill about where I-80 crosses the lake today and went thru a cut behind the dam into Columbia, The only siding in Columbia was in front of the station for a coal company in town. The Delaware Branch (old Blairstown Railway) split from the main about where the culvert under I-80 is today and was on the other side of the power dam and lake and then ran on a blasted cliff to Delaware. There was no siding from Warrington until the branch reached Delaware. There are no signs of the dam or electric plant on the Kill which dumped into the Delaware where this picture was taken. There were two dams built at the mouth of the Kill. The one was built in 1903 and failed in a flood and then another that was built several hundred feet behind it with the electric plant around 1906. The failed dam and the newer dam and electric plant are still there and the plant is still generating. The 1918 Val Map shows gives no notes !
> on!
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> > > rackage being removed not does a 1906 railroad engineer's notebook show a siding.
> > > Fred Heilich
> > >
> > > > From: jerdz@earthlink.net
> > > > To: rrbahrs@gmail.com; erielack@lists.railfan.net
> > > > Subject: Re: (erielack) Steamtown Images--February 25, 2015 (C0571 thru C0575) IDs x2
> > > > Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 11:45:45 -0700
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> > > > “NYS&W” sure got my attention. Bob’s comments about C0574 sound right to me. The lake lies below the cut in the hillside in the background, to the left of the power plant buildings. The Delaware Branch R-O-W ran along the foot of the cut, on the far side of the lake. I don’t think the NYS&W main would have been visible to the photographer. It ran to the north (left) of this view. I doubt the icehouse was on the Delaware Branch itself, but its spur might have come either from the main as Bob suggests or from the Delaware Branch.
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> > > > Here’s a thought. If the 1908 date of the second dam is correct, and if the buildings on the far right are associated with the power plant, are we then looking at the second power plant? Are those the structures that exist today? If yes, then we could easily confirm the location.
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> > > > Jerry Dziedzic
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> > > > From: Robert Bahrs
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 10:31 AM
> > > > To: EL Mail List
> > > > Subject: Re: (erielack) Steamtown Images--February 25, 2015 (C0571 thru C0575) IDs x2
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> > > > Talking with some friends and a person more knowledgeable on NYS&W than myself, I think that C0574 is indeed standing on the north ( west ) wye track at Portland, PA, looking 90 degrees to the tracks, due east across the Delaware River at Columbia, NJ. The large ice house that I was not familiar with was apparently owned by the Decatur family, and was probably on the NYS&W. Not sure if it was on the branch to Delaware, NJ. or it had a spur off the main. The lake and NYS&W tracks would have been on the far side of the pictured ice house. The buildings on the far right are possibly ?? associated with the power plant at the dam on the Paulin skill? Most, but not all, of this area got obliterated when Rt 46 was built and later Rt 80. The second dam, built around 1908 is still operable, and I'm told is still a small power plant.
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