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From: Todd Hollritt thollritt AT yahoo DOT com
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:18:37 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: Great Notch images
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Here's some more Erie Lackawanna freight action from 1975, Great Notch was about a 15 min. bike ride from my home to witness all the action at the station. The first image would be TC-1 I guess, its hauling about 80% head end high cubes, empties going west? The third image with GP-35 2580 could be SC-8 with that Red CNJ gondola head out, Lake Jct. pickup? The last three images are of SD-45 3608 on a westbound stopping at the Great Notch station for a freight east out of Denville, I vividly recall the friendly EL crew invited me up into the cab to "Be engineer" while they waited for the meet. This was one of the first times I got to learn how to operate the big EMD's, great fun for a 13 year old! Soon the eastbound with SDP-45 3651 showed up with NJDOT U34CH 3364 working on freight, I am 99% this was a summer Sunday morning and EL was making sure 3364 was back at Hoboken in time for the monday rush hour!
Wish I was a little bit older at the time, you could hear all the activity from my house, many a school night I would hear the freghts working east and west, you could hear the eastbounds creep up to the station, and soon air horns blaring though Little Falls would be followed by the roar of the eastbounds climbing the grade, our house would actually (((Shake))) alomst a mile away as the locomotives would round the curve near Route 46, and a stall every now and then was common, you could tell the under powered freights if they started working hard before reaching the crossovers east of the Great Notch station. All eastbounds would throttle back as they worked their way through the switches at the crossover. Some trains would be down almost to a walking pace as they made their way past the station and around the curve toward Montclair. In many of the images I posted you can see the tell tale cloud of sand around the locomotives fighting upgrade!

On average we would see at least four to seven railfans on weekends and summer days, all armed with much better camera's then mine, where are ALL those photos today!? I will post some commuter and locals soon. I got a few emails off the list, your welcome one and all for images of the short lived "Greatest Show On Earth", as for a few years EL shifted to the Scranton side late in life. Glad I was there!
Todd ~

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