(erielack) Web site with some very cool old photo's

[Dave Rutan <rutan3_@_nac.net>]

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From: "Michael DeCarlo" <mikedc3_@_optonline.net>
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Subject: (erielack) Web site with some very cool old photo's


> One pic that stood out to me is at:
> http://www.family-images.com/nj/misc/1916%20Train%20Wreck%201916%20Byrum%20N
> J.jpg
> It's a wreck scene from 1916 in Byram NJ along the NJ cut off. It looks to
> me this was taken between Lk. Lackawanna and the CR 605 bridge, looking
> east. This is the only area in Byram I can think of with a slope on one
> side
> and a hill on the other and it looks way too high up to be anywhere on the
> Sussex branch. Anyway, Hope you all enjoy the site.

It's a different township.  The Sussex Branch went through Byram, not
Byrum.  I saw this photo on eBay once and tried looking up the accident
in the newspapers.  I found no local mention of it.

Dave
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