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Here are the interchange numbers for the year ending June 30, 1959: Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Portland 8,187 Bath Jct. 3,365 Augusta 61 New York, Susquehanna & Western Hainesburg Jct. 8,894 Sussex 0 (The NYS&W Hanford Branch was abandoned in 1958) Erie Goshen 5,644 Pine Island 18

Work on the 741 has been going on for a while now. Removing the false roof on the car when the Erie "modernized" it in their Susquehanna shops has been a slow painstaking job. Much of this work had to be done by hand because the side walls were insulated by Pullman with horsehair so care h...

We just posted our Fall 2003 newsletter at the website link in the post above. We have also been awarded a second TEA-21 grant in the amount of $94,000. This means we have enough money to complete the resotration of EL 741. We have just announced the NKP 211 Club. The donations to the 211 Club will ...

Sadly, there are no longer any original building left at Shops. The scrap yard owners demolished the last two structures about two years ago.

The same is true for the Tappen Zee Bridge. Let's scrap it now!

Marty,

OK, I have to ask. What souvenirs did the L&HR produce?

Tim

FDR at Allamuchy is not rumor, it is fact. He was there Sept. 1, 1944. There are photos of his train at the Allamuchy freight house in the book "The President Travels by Train".

I think you have picked a tough time of year to look at the abandoned railroads of Warren County. Vegetation is really thick this time of year. The NJMRHS does a yearly hike and we usually shoot for November. It is a lot easier to see stuff when the weeds are gone (to say nothing of the mosquitoes!)

I grew up in Blairstown and remember seeing the L&HR on trips to Belvidere and Great Meadows. In the early 80's I met Gifford Moore and help sort through the material in the Warwick headquarters building. (Much of my paper collection resides in an L&HR file cabinet I bought at the L&HR a...

Mansfield Street, Belvidere is also still standing, on the property of a propane dealer. Track is still in place as it appears they received tank cars until about 5 years ago.

Let us know when the C420 goes out on the road. I can still remember seeing blue and grey Lehigh & Hudson River units cut across the farmland in NW NJ.

You have to remember that the Erie leased the NYS&W in 1898. By 1920 all of the original NYS&W steam had been scrapped - much of it was either too small or were camelbacks built for the Wilkes-Barre & Eastern. When the NYS&W made its break from the Erie in 1940, it leased all of its ...