Re: (erielack) Railroad Improvements 1886

["Gary R. Kazin" <gkazin_@_yahoo.com>]

Interestingly, NONE of these were built by the DLW, and they were built 15
to 20 years later!

The line from Morristown to Essex Fells (somewhat west of Caldwell) was
built about 1900 for the McEwan paper interests (later Whippany
Paperboard) as the Whippany River Railroad, ancestor of the Morristown &
Erie, while the line from Essex Fells to Montclair was built for a group
of citizens of Caldwell as the Caldwell Railroad and operated by the
Montclair Railway, later part of the ERIE.  The original route was to
tunnel through the Verona area, but that was not completed and the line
was built to Great Notch.  The M&E pulled back from Essex Fells when the
Erie abandoned the Caldwell Branch about 1966 and the tracks now end at
its last customer in Roseland.

The line from Morristown to Mendham was built about 1904 as part of the
Rockaway Valley Railroad.  It did not connect with the DLW; it ended a
mile or two west of Speedwell Avenue near Lake Road.  The west end
connected with the Central Railroad of New Jersey at White House, about 25
miles away.  This is now part of Patriot's Path.

A line to Lake Hopatcong was built by Morris County Traction, but the DLW
never went up along the lake.

- --- Lynne <LKRanieri_@_comcast.net> wrote:
> http://lists.railfan.net/listthumb.cgi?erielack-01-04-06
> 
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Gary R. Kazin
DL&W Milepost R35.7
Rockaway, New Jersey


		
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