DL&W Paterson & Little Falls Station Locations

Here is a little tip about Hagestrom maps, I worked for them back in a day, and they put little false items sprinkled around their maps to catch other map makers copying their maps. Since they are copyrighted they can catch other printers from illegally copying their maps. I have lived in Paterson/West Paterson (now Woodland Park) for all my 73 years and this is one of those "catches" > There never was a station at New St/Grand St area, Dowling Fuel had a coal pocket at that location but no station.

At what "station" in the tariffs and employees' timetables is Dowling Fuel located? Is it a named station (as defined in the rule book and listed in the employees' timetable), but with no facilities except for a private siding and maybe a telephone box?

If you look on the google map below zoom in between Marshall Street and Lambert Castle on Valley Road (which is elevated for part of it) the section just to the West of Valley Road where the industrial building is is where the old DL&W station was. It was derelict when I was a boy growing up in that area and was torn down in the early seventies to make room for the rt 80 and 19 interchange. If you give me some time I actually have pictures of the station but they are in negative form. Any interest?

Adam



http://maps.google.com/maps?q=montclair ... b=il&tbo=1

If you look on the google map below zoom in between Marshall Street and Lambert Castle on Valley Road (which is elevated for part of it) the section just to the West of Valley Road where the industrial building is is where the old DL&W station was. It was derelict when I was a boy growing up in that area and was torn down in the early seventies to make room for the rt 80 and 19 interchange. If you give me some time I actually have pictures of the station but they are in negative form. Any interest?

Adam



http://maps.google.com/maps?q=montclair ... b=il&tbo=1

Here's a photo I took of the ex-DL&W station in Paterson NJ in the late 60's.
I don't believe it could have been before late 1966, even as I-80 progress was progressing.
I believe the station building itself hung on a bit during those years before it was razed.
It was called "Marshall St", located at Lackawanna Plaza, also near New Street.
There still is a spot called Lackawanna Plaza which you can drive past at this site, and see the street sign for it. I was actually in the station once, a few years earlier when it was still open.
Once it closed, the active track was cut back southward to Athenia. I do remember too, around the same time or a few years earlier, the "high bridge" over the Passaic River in West Paterson, as well as the Dowling Coal & Coke Company on New Street (heading up to Garrett Mountain). At that point (though I was too young to explore), there was still a rail overpass adjacent to Dowling at New Street. Glad to find the other photo link posted above, if anyone knows of any other related photos of this line through Paterson, please post back.

If the picture is cut off, here's the link to it:
http://viewoftheblue.com/photography/st ... at_dlw.jpg

Frank,

Nice picture, I have fond memories of wandering about on the tracks and into the vacant boarded up building through here, even though by the early seventies they were literally a garbage dump. The tracks and station hung on a long time before they were leveled for the interchange. I too am hoping to find more pictures of this line that are not the ones in my boyhood memory! The other thing I am looking for are pictures of the Montclair Lackawanna Plaza/yard and John Blondell Coal facility before that all was torn down and developed in the 1980=82. I hope to one day model these locations from more than memory. There are some pics around of the very end of Montclair but none of the John Blondell facility or when the yard was active. I exchanged emails with a guy who remembers the Montclair Yard and the weekly visits of a GP7 that worked the yard as well as the daily Mail Pickup track with it's 72' Phoebe Snow RPO. My saddest memory was the MOW gang pulling up the tracks at Monclairight before the Demo. I lost a great loitering place filled with history and mystery!

Adam