Re:Re: (erielack) DL&W Track markers, Hoboken 1952

[Jim Guthrie <jguthrie_@_pipeline.com>]

>I believe that the lights were an ERIE innovation at Jersey City, and were quite helpful at the H&M concourse under the far end of the platforms, where there was no room for milling about looking at train boards, and no way to correct your error if you came up onto the wrong platform.

Randy -- I think I recall a "Head fo Hoboken" brochure telling Erie Passengers that these were **new**. I have some of the Enamel/Metal train numbers from the H&M Erie Concourse. Given the decrepit state of things even when the NYS&W pulled out, I just don;t recall seeing anything -- but that would be long after the Erie itself was gone. 

>I don't recall the lights at Hoboken, but my Hoboken experiences were only with through trains (to Scranton) in 1944, and >getting to and from the NYSME railroad upstairs when it was there.  The only time I took a Northern train from Hoboken was >on the last day. 

Two Blue Lights -- I have a slide I took on the last night -- and posted it here some time back if anyone wants to see these indicators in use; I rode the last train to Nyack, and a few months later, the last train to Sparkill. The EL was smart enough to get rid of as much interstate service as they could earlier thatn the big October 1966 cutbacks -- having been stuck with running Suffern-Port Jervis locals a few years earlier when they didn't co-ordinate their regulatory filings properly.

In any case, on both occasions, the Friendly Service Route let us all ride the deadhead back to Hoboken, where many of us lined up at the ticket counter for souvenirs. The clerks gave away all the station rubber stamps -- I have "Leonia."

Cheers,
Jim





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