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From: Ed Montgomery etmontgomery46 AT gmail DOT com
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 11:56:00 -0400
Subject: Pictures from 1966
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Good Friday was on April 8th in 1966 and it was a sunny chilly morning. I
had made it a tradition to go to Mountain View and observe the only
Lackawanna thru passenger train on the Boonton Line come through town:
Number 47. That was my first introduction to E8's. Lots of head-end
cars, many REA refrigerator cars along with a GMY RPO and baggage cars and
the one coach on the end. Sometimes it was an older modernized coach but
the "Phoebe Snow" 300 series coaches would show up on it as well. It went
all the way to Binghamton. Over the years the train was cut back to
Scranton and then EL cut it back to Denville which brings me to these
pictures. By now the train was renumbered 1011 and was turned on the
Denville wye to return as 1026.

This is the Mountain View track platform as EL configured it when they cut
the Boonton Line over to the Greenwood Lake in 1963. Mountain View lost
two classic looking depots when EL put the narrow aluminum structure up
between the two tracks. The track on the left when looking down the
platform to the station is the new Boonton Line turnout. The Greenwood
Lake is on the right. Now the brick waiting room occupies the area where
the aluminum shed was and the handicap ramp is where the end of the
platform is.

This is an interesting series of pictures and I don't recall what happened
on this day. There are two trains parked on the Greenwood Lake track. I'm
not sure why and I don't think I ever saw this again. At the time EL was
running a connecting train from Wanaque-Midvale to Mountain View, No. 1416
to connect with Boonton Line train 1024. That train would lay over at
Mountain View until 8:27 and leave as 1418. So I'm wondering why there
were two trains there that day. Could there have been an engine failure on
one?

Both engines were generating steam for the coaches. It was a cool morning.
One of the Stillwells is an arched window model.

You will see the freshly painted Alcos. The arrival of 1011. 1011 leaving
with the "Bullseye" tail light in position on the Boonton Coach. Some
vandals had recently spilled a can of paint on the platform messing it up.

Enjoy the pictures.

Ed Montgomery


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