Old Erie Main Line Carlton Hill Station Pictures

[Port Jervis]

Regarding the rail, that was Lackawanna steel company, not DL&W. I don'y know of any RR that rolled it's own rail or had their name on the rail.

Many railroads, including the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, had their own designs of rail, which would be marked with the kind, like DL&W and the maker, like Lackawanna. Merry confusion.

The question I have is why Lackawanna rail is being used on an Erie RR track. Recycled after the merger?

[frank754]

The rails that say Lackawanna came from the Lackawanna Steel Co., and not from the other RR line:
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[erie910]

The line to Carlton Hill was once part of the Erie Main Line which went through Passaic downtown, Clifton, Paterson, and on past Suffern. In 1966, when the track in downtown Passaic was taken out of service, the railroad ran 2 trains in each direction from/to Carlton Hill, with a stop at Rutherford. A crossover was installed west of the station. After the westbound train was empty, it proceeded west to the crossover. The engine cut off, ran over to the eastbound track, ran to Rutherford, onto the Bergen County Line, back west on the westbound track to the consist west of the Carlton Hill station. It coupled onto the consist, connected the air, and (presumably) did an air test. It shoved from the westbound track over the crossover onto the eastbound track and proceeded east to the Hoboken coach yard. This process was repeated by the two trains each morning, running empty to Carlton Hill and running the engines around the trains via the Bergen County Line. Eventually, the crossover was replaced by having the eastbound track curve and connect directly with the westbound track.

After passenger service to Carlton Hill was dropped, maybe around 1971 or 1972, the remained two freight customers--Royce Chemical and Frommer. Both of these eventually went out of business, and all service on the line ceased.

The bridge over the Passaic River was, indeed, 2 tracks, but, even as early as 1946, and ETT showed a 25 m.p.h. speed restriction over the bridge. Of course, trains which stopped at Passaic Park were slowing by the time that they got to the bridge (westbound) or were starting eastbound, so that this wasn't a problem. But when the Erie Limited and Lake Cities trains ran, they did have to slow. The bridge survived for many years after the line through Passaic was abandoned--I left NJ in the early 1970's, and it was still in place then.

In the early to mid-1960's, there was the apparatus just (timetable) east of the Passaic station in downtown Passaic for mailbag pickup.

After rail service through Passaic was abandoned, there were freight customers just (timetable) west of Passaic. From what Google Maps now show, most of the rail line east of Paterson has been abandoned.