ERIE / DL&W local history - Montclair, N.J.

Found the following by pure accident and thought I'd share. This was written in 1908 !!

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genepool/montnj11.htm

So that in my memory we have advanced from the tallow candle through the periods of sperm oil, kerosene and gas to the electric light; from the two stages a day between here and Newark to thirty well filled trains from New York on the D., L. & W.R.R. and twenty-one on the Erie R.R., beside the trolley and automobile.

51 COMBINED train movements daily via the ERIE and the LACKAWANNA thru Montclair ! Compare that both pre and post the Montclair Connection today.

Think of this: Phillip Doremus was writing about a DL&W station that was still single track. The high capacity six track stub end passenger terminal was still four years in the future. The Erie Greenwood Lake Division was double tracked, but manual block. There were also uncounted trolley cars.