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Way back in 1960, long before this forumn, Yahoo groups, Trainorders.com, etc, etc - getting the WORD wasn't easy. Case in point, steam on the L&H Centennial Train!! Alvin Smith of Washington, NJ and I drove out to Reading PA to check out the RDG steam program very late in winter or early spring...

Jack Flood gave me a choice where to ride back and I chose the caboose, because I had a plan. Jack called the cupola seats "the gigelo" - never before, or since, had I heard that term. Has anyone else?? Maybrook is (was!!) somewhat slower in the afternoon. Most connections from the west ha...

Hi Paul - It's a rainly, chilly afternoon here in VT as I pick my brain - all I remember about Gamma is they got hazmat tanks, did they do nasty chemicals??

Hi Paul - from rainy,

Chief I do remember them going through Washington on the P'burg Branch - don't recall if there were cabooses at both ends - there WAS that runaround east of Sussex Jct. No recall of anything about Croxton. Then, there was that tugboat strike - especially remember PRR Sharks with a solid FGE consist ...

Wanted to clarify the eighth paragraph up from the bottom. During that mid-fifties slump HO-6 and OA-1 were often the only trains Allentown-Maybrook - AO-4 and OA-3 got annulled frequently. So, the power was three units on the Allentown run. The "Grab" ran daily with two units and turned a...

Here's some answers: #1 It was P. S. Kramer of Paterson, NJ - had their own cars, black, and stencilled with white. But, did the L&H get them from Sparta Jct off the NYSW, or DLW at Andover? #2 Yes, the crossing just off Rte 46, to the west was the plate deck bridge, then Pequest Siding. #3 I ne...

Just like the girl next door, you wanted to know MORE. And, like moving to the next level in a relationship, I HAD to ride the L&H. Growing up on the West End, over the hill from Pequest in a rural area, getting a ride wasn't easy. Stops at the tar plant were infrequent even in the busy summer p...

Hi Walter - Greetings from stormy Vermont. We are having major flooding here right now. The worst in my lifetime. Anyhow, I followed the L&NE until the end. The only double track was out in the coal region. It was either Tamaqua or Arlington. There was an employee timetable online - check out Gi...

I was fortunate to be born in Phillipsburg, NJ in 1941 - the ONLY place where ALL six Conrail predecessors operated. Of course the L&H entered on trackage rights, but the Reading brought trains across the Delaware into P'burg on trackage rights, too. There were trains into the PRR yard off the R...

I have reason to believe a lot of todays railfans caught up with locomotive details don't give a thought to where all the freight comes from. Do the cars JUST show up at interchange.??? For those who DO care I'll share some thoughts from my background from about 1950 to 1966. The L&H had traffic...

Way, way back in the 1940's & 50's when I was growing up two important events occurred EVERY Sunday: 8 o'clock Mass at St-Rose of Lima, and then go over the ridge to Island Park in Buttzville. It was just east of where NJ Rte 30, then Rte 69, and later #31, met what was US Rte 6, later Rte 46, t...

Thank you. This three part "Andover" series has generated more appreciation than my usual previous stuff had. I don't know if it is still listed since the site was revamped, and older posts were lost, but only my "Why the L&H Died?" got more replies. Just this morning during ...

Just recently, after spring lambing (Nine!!), we headed to southeast Tennessee to visit family. As we came west of Harriman on 84 the active and not-so-active rights-of-way were noted as well as that Rte 208 to Maybrook. But, no desire to make a turn-off. I'll just remember it as it was. Approaching...

BK was a New Haven "cabin" type train order office, as I remember it, not much different than Andover in size. It was New Haven manned and open continuously, located on the very west end where the L&H split off towards Burnside. Served the L&H and Erie. I believe the L&NE being...