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CJPat wrote: You could practically rebuild the entire drive train out in the street at curbside.

Well, I can understand now why it happens the way it does, but surely this should have all been obvious when they designed the connection and the phase gaps and the signalling. Hardly a masterpiece of engineering. Or maybe it was designed by some consultant who didn't understand how things work in t...

I don't want to be a traitor, but if you don't get a good answer here, there is a pretty active DL group over at yahoo: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/D ... ackawanna/ . I bet someone there can asnwer anything about Scranton...
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For Philadelphia /Williamsport (Newberry Yd) traffic, (or Williamsport/Haucks) which was a better freight route -- the Catawissa or the Gordon/Locust Gap/Mt. Carmel route (Shamokin branch?)? Given the T1's couldn't run on the Catawissa, I would have guessed the other route, but it sounds like the Ph...

Were these NY Central RR yards? From historicaerials.com it seem there were yards west of 11th Ave from 30th St up to about 38th or 39th, that all tied into the NYC tunnel going north (crossing 11th Ave in a North East directon around 35th st, then turning north to go into the tunnel). Between 30th ...

Delvyrails, thanks. It seems the "Harbor Branch,", "Real Estate branch", and "Schellenger's Landing branch" are all the same thing, contrary to what my initial thinking was. I also found a site about a model Cape May RR which has a Harbor Branch from Harbor Branch Jc. j...

There doesn't seem to be any reporting of traffic at the EWR Amtrak/NJT station. Yes, no traffic to report of! Not sure if there is some satire or something I am missing. In the links given by River Rat (for example April) http://www.panynj.com/CommutingTravel/airports/pdfs/traffic/APR2009_EWR.PDF ...

No, that fancy bridge is the former Delaware Lackawanna and Western (later Erie Lacakawanna) main line. That bridge is a relatively new section of the mainline built around 1910 called the "cutoff". There are proposals around to get the line going again for passenger service from NJ to the...

Bogie, IMD is an interesting idea, I like the last part about the pulsing of code signal rates to give a beat frequency that changes in time to explain the fluttering. Your idea to me has the ring of truth -- how a "perfect storm" could arise in a certain situation to produce disaster, and...

In serveral places on the web (sites below) I see reference to a "Harbor Branch" or a "Harbor Branch junction" on the West Jersey and Seashore (part of the PRR), presumably in Cape May. I don't think this is the junction to the Stone Harbor Branch they are referring to. Where exa...

Check out this site I stumbled onto. If you are a fan of the Ironbound and the CNJ you should love it. http://trainutz.com/ironbound.shtml Amazingly lifelike. One link even had a shanty: http://trainutz.com/I-elvcrossingshanty.jpg Does anyone here know Andy Romano, creator of the site (and the model...

If you go to http://mapper.acme.com/ and enter "High Crossing", NJ and then go to "topo mode" and zoom in until you get the high resolution topos (takes a few minutes for the server to respond sometimes), it shows the exact memorial location just NW of the tracks at the crossing ...

No pictures, but I did find a track diagram of the area with the Hawkins St. crossing labelled. http://raildata.railfan.net/cnj/homecnj.html (On the left side, click on "Newark and New York Branch") The line at ground level sounds like the Central RR of NJ (Jersey Central) Newark Branch (g...

Carfloater is right about affording it -- used copies are $90 to $190 on Amazon. Down to earth, Princeton (NJ) Public Libary has a copy --you don't need a library card to read it in the library and copy it. You can look online if it is in before you make the trip: http://catalog.princetonlibrary.org...

The standard "bible" of that region is Larry Lowenthal's book "Iron Mine Railroads of Northern New Jersey," (Tri-State Railway Historical Society, 1981, accoding to google). I looked at a copy about 5-10 years ago. It was fascinating, full of great information and maps. If you ca...