Lackawanna Cut-off

If you interested in this subject, the book store in Newton on Spring street has only several copies left of:

"A Penny View... an album of postcard views: Building the Lackawanna Cutoff in Sussex and Warren Counties,NJ

The work that went into this project is simply amazing.

There are two other books still in stock at the bookstore in Newton or in the bookstore in Byram (located next to the Shop rite) that has two volumes of "Railroads in Sussex County"

Great old pictures of what the county was like and the trains that ran through these counties

Another great book on the region, although i believe its out of print and maybe only available via Ebay, is "The Lackawanna Railroad in Northwest New Jersey", By William Greenberg and Larry Lowenthal. This volume contains invaluable research on the area and the early dayts, right up to when Conrail removed the rails on the cutoff, with their "We don't need it, but we don't want anyone else to have it, either!" mentality. The book was published in 1987 by the Tri-State Railway Historical Society and is (IMHO) well worth the search for it.....

The Lowenthal book has detailed diagrams of many obscure crossings (Warbasse Jct, for example) and how to get to them by car today. Even a mention of the HyperHumus Railway

Very good diagrams of track plants, yards (such as Newton's) and the joint DL&W / NYS&W Franklin Branch, which was the last operable and operating element of the Hanford branch in NJ

Where can I purchase these books?

Ken