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Re:Re: (erielack) DL&W Track markers at Hoboken Terminal

My (admittedly small) collection of EL public timetables seems to indicate that the color system was for the indoctrinated Erie commuters; the Lackawanna folks were assumed to be able to get along without the help.

I suspect that the practice grew from the layout of the Tubes' station at the Erie terminal.  The Tubes were so far inland that there was a mini concourse which discharged its passengers about halfway along the Erie platforms and so had to have a quick and easy way for thousands of people to find their trains without stopping to look at departure boards.  When they moved to Hoboken, they took their habit with them.

As previously mentioned:
Two white:  Erie Mainline; Bergen County; Newark Branch.
Two blue: Northern (and, maybe, Susquehanna?)
Two yellow: NJ&NY/Pascack Valley
Two red, one white: NY&GL/Boonton

Randy Brown
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In a message dated 6/24/2009 4:26:41 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,   njmidland_@_verizon.net writes:

Two  white lights - Bergen County Line
Two yellow lights - NJ&NY (Pascack  Valley)
One White and two red lights - Greenwood Lake -  Boonton



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I believe two blue lights were for the Northern Branch trains.
 
smt

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