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From: "Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" paultup AT lucent DOT com
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 13:30:43 -0500
Subject: RE: (erielack) Train symbols (and named trains)
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Henry Jarusik wrote:


> It's a shame that I didn't pay more attention to train
> operations back then [being all of 13 or so in 7th Grade].

Still better than me - I was 5! :)


> Being able to see the Passaic River bridge from my window and
> knowing the operators at WR.
> Plus my Uncle who worked at DB, also a help but not fully
> tapped as a resource while he was alive. You and I have
> discussed our collective interest in the Boonton/Greenwood
> Lake before [And, no, I haven't put my layout together yet.
> Yet, I keep buying EL stuff. Lord, I've got a lot of work to
> do. Deck and finishing off the basement still have first billing.].

Same boat I'm in... :) I'm half tempted just to make a module of Boonton just to get me started!



> To quote you: "was most likely NY-74, which was carded for a
> 11:30 PM arrival at Croxton." Why do I want to think this
> e/b came across through Rutherford/Lyndhurst, but not Kearny,
> and then over to Croxton?
>
> Now I've got a "burr under my saddle" about that nightly
> freight which will drive me nuts all day until I get home
> later and do some digging.

Here's an excellent resource: http://home.comcast.net/~jwmutter/opssched.html

Jeff Mutter has scanned the 1974 employee TT, as well as a 1975 "freight operations" schedule that was put out by Tri-State Chapter NRHS at the time. You'll see minor time differences between the two. Also note on the 1975 timetable that PN-98 terminates at Scranton.

Of course, for reasons of moving traffic along, there were many times that freights that went via Port Jervis traveled via Scranton (and vice versa). I have photos of NY-100 (which usually went via Scranton) in East Rutherford, NJ and Cochecton, NY - both on the Erie side. Towards the end, the worsening track conditions on the Delaware Division forced much of the traffic to go via Scranton.

Looking through my photos of the last year of operation, I see these symbols in the daytime on the Scranton side: (and not sure if some of these are off-schedule, which is why you might see them in the day)

CS-9
NY-72
CX-97
NY-98
NY-100
HB-1
ND-91
BC-2
SF-100
SC-8
ES-99 (CNJ joint)
SE-98 (CNJ joint)
TC-1 (late in the game detours, often resymbolled as TC-4)
2nd NY-100 (detouring?)
BH-4 (May of 1976 - was this a CR symbol?)

There was also an X-1 that ran in the 1960s. What's that?

By the way, just to add some "excitement," this is in regard the earlier question about "named trains." I've attached a photo taken by my firend Rich Campana in April of 1971 of train "Apollo-2" running through Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ. We had a discussion about this some months back, but my memory escapes me on this. Why was an LV train running on the EL again?

- Paul



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