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From: "JG at graytrainpix" graytrainpix AT hotmail DOT com
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 18:47:48 -0500
Subject: Erie Freight House, Bloomfield NJ
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Bloomfield freight house on the ex-Erie Orange Branch, circa 1982. I believe
that the EL used to keep the Silver Lake Drill engine here overnight, until
the job was abolished around 1974. Thus the crew would report here. The
Silver Lake would sometimes run down to Croxton to get its cars for the
Orange Branch, or would wait for the Greenwood Lake Haul to set them out at
OJ North Newark. Interesting that the Dundee Drill (Dundee Branch, Passaic
NJ) had a similar operating pattern, but the engine and crew always came out
of Croxton Yard (at least when I remember, from 1965 onward). The Dundee
crew would run light to and from Croxton; the Garfield Drill would handle
the cars from the branch junction with the Bergen County Line in Garfield to
Croxton.

Jim Gerofsky



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