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From: Todd Hollritt thollritt AT yahoo DOT com
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:18:07 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: Great Notch images
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With the disscussion of the Silver Lake Drill, here's a few photos of some action at Great Notch, the first is the 460 leading the drill east with an average size train in 1975. Next up is a westbound, just switcher 415 and C-172 at he station. It was VERY rare to see a light move like this! I included a meet at Mountian View, the drill is on the right heading up the Geenwood Lake Spur, and an EL work train occupies the connector track that linked the NY&GL RR and the DL&W Boonton Line, you are looking east. Next we see the EL 420 and a gondolla at Great Notch station, this train was picking up lots of loose rail and debris along the right of way along with a small crane, I recall EL spent a few months cleaning up leftover junk from recent trackwork and they also painted signals and crossing gates and such, all in preparation of the Chessie inspection train that was going to inspect the Erie Lackawanna railroad prior to a planned takeover. This
train may have been related to that event.
The last few photos are EL 453 east on teh Silver Lake Drill stopped at Great Notch to talk to Hoboken on the blockline. Again glad some of you are enjoying this glimpe into the day to day operations before April 1976, when the railroad world as I knew it would forever change.
Todd ~

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