by Jtgshu
amtrakowitz wrote:I recall Grant Avenue being open on the RVL in the early 1980s. This was when trains were still going to Phillipsburg, too.The station name is Elmora, it happens to be an interlocking. There are checkboxes in the timetable that either "INT" (interlocking) is checked, "PS" (passenger station) is checked or nothing is checked, meaning its not an interlocking or an active passenger station. Elmora has the "INT" checked.
They call the station location "Elmora"? I thought that was the name of the interlocking. I have a PRR passenger timetable from 1966 that called it "South Elizabeth" (at the South Street bridge)—the New York-bound station platform survived until some time into the very late 80s.
The actual South Elizabeth station has been removed from the timetable, and while I don't have a really old one handy that woudl show it, chances are its Milepost would be identical or very similar to Elmora. However, the station was WITHIN the interlocking, so of course, it would be removed when it wasn't used any longer, as it would be silly and confusing to have 2 stations, with 1 being a "ghost" station if you will, at basically the same location. If it was a little further apart, they probably would have kept it in, like for example North Rahway and now Merck interlocking. Only .1 mile apart, but both are in the timetable.
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