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From: Ed Montgomery etmontgomery46 AT gmail DOT com
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 20:35:35 -0500
Subject: Old Photo
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I thought I would start to share some old EL pictures since I now have a
scanner set up and retirement has brought on some extra time. This picture
was taken in the spring of 1964 with my first "good" camera - an Argus C-3.
It was given to me by my neighbor when he bought a newer model. It took
great pictures.

This is the Sunday morning e/bound rounding the new turnout from the
Boonton Line to the Greenwood Lake. The combination of an Erie Alco and
Lackawanna Boonton coaches. The train is north of Route 202 and the
cross-over was an idea EL had to terminate trains and run the engine around
the consist to return to Hoboken. The switches were electrically operated,
I suspect from Hoboken. However, the installation was never completed and
never used. In later years this cross-over could have become an asset.
However, EL ripped it out. I'm wondering if anyone has more information
on this.

I remember one night when there was a freight derailment somewhere between
Little Falls and Great Notch. EL ran one train up the Morristown Line,
turned it at Denville and ran e/bound to Mountain View. When the train
arrived, the crew thought they could run the engines around the train and
head west. They discovered they couldn't. They had to back the train to
Lincoln Park and run the engines around it.

Enjoy the picture.

Ed Montgomery


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