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Re: (erielack) Re: Speaking of Radios - More



Gordon/Listers:

As a kid/young teen walking across from the WR/Kearny side into North
Newark and on occasion along the Orange Branch, I can't recall where
PSE&G put in high voltage lines over the EL, or even the construction
itself.

Interestingly enough was watching the construction of Route 21 a few
years earlier and cutting out the original span on the Newark/western
shore of the Passaic River bridge to accomodate the tall over and under
highway span right against the shoreline.  Watching this work go on day
and night was fascinating as a kid. 



Henry Jarusik
New London, Pa





On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 07:01:57 -0400, "Gordon Davids"
<g.davids_@_verizon.net> said:
> Digging deeper into the memory banks:
> 
> The towers were built by Public Service Electric and Gas for use by Erie 
> Lackawanna when PSE&G built the high voltage lines over the Greenwood 
> Lake Branch.  They carried most of the EL communication circuits that 
> had been on wires leaving Hoboken, including telephone, PBX, teletype, 
> and I think the CTC code lines.  Now I don't think they carried any 
> other telephone circuits.  They did hold antennae for the railroad radio 
> base transceivers.
> 
> GAD
> 
> Gordon Davids wrote:
> 
> > The radio towers at North Newark and Hoboken Terminal were built by 
> > AT&T Long Lines or New Jersey Bell in 1968 as a microwave link.  AT&T 
> > leased the space from Erie Lackawanna, and as part of the lease EL was 
> > given space on both towers for base station antennae.  Hoboken was a 
> > remote base, meaning that it was wire connected to the dispatchers' 
> > office.  I think that some other offices, including the Dugout and the 
> > police, were hooked into the same transceiver system as the 
> > dispatchers, and they could select the base station at either tower.  
> > The North Newark transceiver might have used a microwave channel as 
> > its connection to Hoboken, so technically it could have been called a 
> > repeater, since it would have re-transmitted a radio signal on a 
> > different frequency.
> >
> > I think the need for the microwave link for Telco was caused by the 
> > construction of the high voltage power line over the Greenwood Lake 
> > Branch at the same time, which interfered with some of the old 
> > telephone circuits.  The power line was purposely built so that it 
> > could serve as catenary support if the Greenwood Lake had ever been 
> > electrified.
> >
> 
> 
> 
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