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From: "Paul R DOT Tupaczewski" paultup AT comcast DOT net
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 11:13:29 -0500
Subject: Re: BOONTON TOWER
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Ed Montgomery noted:


> I think the fourth track came out in the early 40s. Even though there was a surge of traffic during WW II the anthracite business
along
> with general freight dropped off in the 30s and never returned to the pre-depression levels. Robert Le Masenna's detailed article
in
> TRAINS from 1965 noted that. When fully dieselized and the commuter traffic on the Boonton Line was trimmed in the mid-50s, the
> third track came out. It is hard to believe that so much freight and passenger trains once traveled through this area.

The "four-track era" through Boonton was relatively short-lived. The DL&W added the third and fourth track sometime in the
early-to-mid-1920s (it was quite an effort as the houses/structures along the ROW had to be purchased and demolished in the middle
of town). By the mid-1930s, the fourth track was gone.

Here's a GREAT shot from the Jack Emerick collection from the back of a westbound train on the still-four-track main, looking at the
West Boonton tower (at left) and the Fanny Road overpass in the distance. You can see in the trackwork the interlocking that
required a tower be here.

- Paul






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