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From: Tim Stuy njmidland AT verizon DOT net
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 17:30:50 -0400
Subject: Re: (erielack) Last train on the Lackawanna Cut Off Oct 5th 1984>>>29
YEARS AGO!!!
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Here are three photos I took of the scrap train in June of 1984. These
were taken about one mile east of the Paulins Kill Viaduct.

Tim


On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 5:14 PM, stevez10 wrote:

> Hey Dan,
>
> Since you were nice enough to give me some of your blocklines, ill try to
> tell you. The Summer 1984 issue has the scrapping train going from Columbia
> to around Roseville tunnel pulling up spikes between June 18th and July
> 5th.. There is a photo credited to Bob Bahrs of a Conrail B23-7 #1901 on
> page 18 taken near Roseville on June19th 1984..... Then it says the rails
> were pulled up east of there through Greendell around August 1st.....The
> very last train in the Bob Bahrs photo at Port Morris yard was taken on
> Friday, October 5th, according to the Fall 1984 Blockline issue.
>
> Hope this helps somewhat,
>
> Steve Pellettiere
> Washington, NJ
>
>
> From my Android phone on T-Mobile. The first nationwide 4G network.
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: "Daniel G. McFadden"
> Date: 10/16/2013 4:47 PM (GMT-05:00)
> To: 'EL Mail List'
> Subject: RE: (erielack) Last train on the Lackawanna Cut Off Oct 5th
> 1984>>>29 YEARS AGO!!!
>
>
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> 1983-10-22-Blairstown.jpg (image/jpeg, 812x1244 154180 bytes, BF: 6.55 ppb)
> 1984-06-16-Hainesburg.jpg (image/jpeg, 1228x797 125286 bytes, BF: 7.81 ppb)
>
> With regard to the last train on the Lackawanna Cut Off, are we talking a
> revenue move or the train pulling up the rails? I visited the Cut Off a few
> times when the rails were still in but service terminated. Two views are
> attached. On Oct 22, 1983 I stopped at Blairstown and we can see that the
> rails have not seen a train for a while. Then on June 6, 1984, I went to
> Hainesburg Viaduct and found three young men with a speeder preparing to
> take a ride. They invited me along and we took a ride to Blairstown and
> back. Might I claim to be the last passenger on the Cut Off?
>
> So unless my slides are terribly mis-dated, I have two instances where the
> last revenue train must have been prior to October 5, 1984. Can we clarify
> what that date signifies for the Cut Off? If I had not parted with my Block
> Lines, I could probably find out for myself.
>
> Dan McFadden
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. Henry Priebe Jr. [mailto:root@bluemoon.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 9:52 AM
> To: EL Mail List
> Subject: Re: (erielack) Last train on the Lackawanna Cut Off Oct 5th
> 1984>>>29 YEARS AGO!!!
>
>
> See http://www.railfan.net/lists/listthumb.cgi?erielack-10-16-13 for the
> image.
>
> Henry
>
> J. Henry Priebe Jr. Blue Moon Internet Corp Network Administrator
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>
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2013, David wrote:
>
> >
> > And he wrote back: I asked my friend and fellow Lackawannite: " who's
> this
> > on the running board?"
> >
> >
> >
> > And he wrote back: That's me and my son Eric. He's now 33. wow.
> AND
> PS
> > Bob's retired from CR?NS now
> >
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 10/14/2013 8:37:26 P.M. Eastern Daylight Tim writes:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > cid:image001.jpg@01CEC91C.FCB460B0
> >
> > Last Train on the Cut Off at Port Morris-10-5-1984
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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